SO MUCH FOR "THE GREATEST GENERATION"

This is another case of American UNexceptionalism:

Bess Myerson, New Yorker of Beauty, Wit, Service and Scandal, Dies at 90

By ENID NEMY and WILLIAM McDONALDJAN. 5, 2015
NY Times

Bess Myerson, a New York favorite daughter who basked in the public eye for decades — as Miss America in 1945, as a television personality, as a force in public affairs and finally, under a harsher light, as a player in a shattering municipal scandal — died on Dec. 14 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif., her death occurring in the relative obscurity in which she had lived her last years. She was 90.
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Few sponsors, it turned out, wanted a Jewish Miss America to endorse their products. Certain country clubs and hotels barred her as she toured the country after the pageant. Appearances were canceled.