Miss America 1961, the 34th
Miss America pageant, was held at the
Boardwalk Hall
Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, is a multi-purpose arena in Atlantic City in Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the Atlant ...
in
Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1960 on
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
.
The telecast was watched by a reported 85 million viewers.
Nancy Fleming
Nancy Anne Fleming (born May 20, 1942) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 1961 on September 10, 1960.
Education
Fleming graduated from Michigan State University in 1964 and earned a teaching certificate from th ...
, the winner as
Miss Michigan, later became a television personality and the wife of
Jim Lange
James John Lange (; August 15, 1932 – February 25, 2014) was an American game show host and disc jockey. He was known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in both markets, racking u ...
, host of TV's ''
The Dating Game
''The Dating Game'' is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it ...
''.
Results
Order of announcements
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Awards
Preliminary awards
Other awards
Contestants
External links
Miss America official website
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1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
1960 in the United States
1961 beauty pageants
1960 in New Jersey
September 1960 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey