| Title
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Name
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Hometown
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Age
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Talent
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Placement
|
Awards
|
Notes
|
 Alabama
|
Emma Dale Nunnally
|
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Preliminary Talent Award
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|
 Arkansas
|
Rebecca McCall
|
Blytheville
|
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Vocal, "Put the Blame on Mame"
|
1st Runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
 Atlanta
|
Janey Miller
|
Atlanta
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte"
|
2nd Runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
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| Baltimore
|
Virginia Martin
|
Baltimore
|
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| Baton Rouge
|
Marguerite McClelland
|
Baton Rouge
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Frühlingsstimmen"
|
3rd Runner-up
|
|
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| Birmingham
|
Sue Donegan
|
Birmingham
|
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|
 Boston
|
Paula C. Jerome
|
Boston
|
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|
 California
|
Marilyn Buferd
|
Los Angeles
|
21
|
Dramatic Monologue from Accent on Youth
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
 Chicago
|
Cloris Leachman
|
Chicago
|
|
Comic Sketch, "One Man Radio Program"
|
Top 16
|
|
Later an Oscar and Emmy Award winning actress
|
 Cincinnati
|
LaVonne Bond
|
Cincinnati
|
|
Vocal, "Thine Alone" from Eileen
|
Top 16
|
|
|
 Cleveland
|
Mary Eileen Kelly
|
Cleveland
|
|
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 Colorado
|
Raye Donnelly
|
Colorado Springs
|
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| Columbus
|
Mary Lou Henderson
|
Columbus
|
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|
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|
 Connecticut
|
Joan Turner
|
West Haven
|
|
Vocal, "Coax Me a Little Bit"
|
Top 16
|
|
|
| Detroit
|
Constance Liddicoat
|
Detroit
|
|
|
|
|
|
 District of Columbia
|
Jeanne Carlson
|
|
19
|
Vocal, "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
|
|
|
|
 Florida
|
Jacquelyn Jennings
|
Miami
|
|
Pantomime, "Just a Square in a Social Circle"
|
Top 16
|
|
|
| Greater Philadelphia
|
Virginia Brown
|
Philadelphia
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Illinois
|
Patricia Frye
|
Pekin
|
|
Vocal/Tap Dance, "I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do"
|
Top 16
|
|
|
 Indiana
|
Lois Chitwood
|
Helmsburg
|
|
Piano & Speech
|
|
|
|
 Iowa
|
Jacqueline Means
|
Des Moines
|
19
|
Acrobatic Dance
|
|
|
|
 Kansas
|
Joyce Blakemore
|
Liberal
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Kansas City
|
Nadine LaVerne Fugett
|
Kansas City
|
|
|
|
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|
 Kentucky
|
Mary Madonna Smith
|
Jenkins
|
|
|
|
|
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| Louisville
|
Patricia Alden Fenton
|
Louisville
|
|
Artistic Exhibition & Sketch
|
Top 16
|
|
|
 Maryland
|
Dorothy Crockett
|
Baltimore
|
|
Original Poetry Recitiation
|
|
|
|
 Massachusetts
|
Urania "Rae" Nichols
|
Malden
|
|
|
|
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| Miami Beach
|
Jini Boyd
|
Miami
|
|
|
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|
 Michigan
|
Ruth Margaret Lenfestey
|
New Baltimore
|
20
|
|
|
|
|
 Minnesota
|
Rosemarie Gregg
|
St. Paul
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Mississippi
|
Lennie Nobles
|
Greenwood
|
|
Dance
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Best Dancer Award
|
Later Known as Josephine Nobles Giacketti
|
 Nebraska
|
Marjorie Ann Hanson
|
Omaha
|
|
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 New Jersey
|
Helen Sprinitis
|
Kearny
|
|
|
|
|
|
 New Mexico
|
Martha Cooper
|
Albuquerque
|
|
Speech, "Career as a Newspaper Reporter"
|
|
|
|
 New Orleans
|
Joyce Josephine Frink
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
|
|
|
 New York
|
Violet Mellar
|
White Plains
|
|
Recitation "True to the End"
|
Top 16
|
Miss Congeniality
|
|
 New York City
|
Eileen Henry
|
New York City
|
|
Dramatic Monologue from Saint Joan
|
Top 16
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
 North Carolina
|
Trudy Riley
|
Wilson
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Pennsylvania
|
Eleanor Kramer
|
Lebanon
|
|
Vocal, "My Hero" from The Chocolate Soldier
|
Top 16
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
 Rhode Island
|
Marilyn Tripp
|
Westenly
|
|
|
|
|
|
 South Carolina
|
Anne Mae Morse
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Tennessee
|
Wilda Bowman
|
Chattanooga
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Texas
|
D. Anne Wisener
|
University Park
|
|
Vocal, "Embraceable You"
|
|
|
|
 Utah
|
Armelia Carol Ohmart
|
Salt Lake City
|
|
Vocal, "I Won't Tell a Soul"
|
4th Runner-up
|
|
Later a well-known film & TV actress
|
 Vermont
|
Lola Sundberg
|
Burlington
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Virginia
|
Bette Cannon
|
Alexandria
|
|
Monologue, "The Waltz" by Dorothy Parker
|
|
|
|
 West Virginia
|
Norma Lee Salisbury
|
Parkersburg
|
|
|
Top 16
|
|
|
 Wisconsin
|
Antoine Lunde
|
Milwaukee/Westby
|
20
|
|
Top 16
|
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