Date September 10, 1960 Broadcaster CBS Placements 10 | Presenters Bert Parks Entrants 54 | |
Venue Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey | ||
Miss America 1961, the 34th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1960 on CBS.
The telecast was watched by a reported 85 million viewers. Nancy Fleming, the winner as Miss Michigan, later became a television personality and the wife of Jim Lange, host of TV's The Dating Game.
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Miss America 1961 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA