Kelsey Beck: An Ivy League Beauty with Pageant Roots (from Huffington Post/Stylelist)

Miss Boston Kelsey Beck, Erik Jacobs for The Boston Globe

This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post/Stylelist Children often join the family business, and these days kids end up following in their parents’ footsteps in variety of fields. Mitt Romney followed his father into politics. Ivanka and Don Jr. joined the Trump family business, appearing in the latest incarnation of Celebrity Apprentice. Superbowl MVP [...]

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Miss America 2012, Part 1 (Pre-Pageant Predictions)

Studying our Miss America program book

I normally have friends over to watch Miss America (this year will just be me and my men though); they often wonder how I so accurately predict members of the Top 15 at the start of the pageant.  I have two “insider” tips: 1) Follow who wins the preliminaries during pageant week; 2) Read some [...]

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In a Sea of New England Brunettes, a Blonde Miss Massachusetts

Miss RI, MA, NH, and CT (from Miss NH's Facebook page)

This past Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending the Miss Massachusetts Pageant, held in Worcester, MA. Molly Whalen, Miss Taunton, took the title– the only blonde title holder from New England competing for Miss America 2012.  Misses Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island were in attendance, actually sitting in the row in [...]

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The Odds Look Gorgeous: A Quantitative Analysis of the Miss Massachusetts Contest

Please check out my piece in the June 19, 2011 issue of The Boston Globe Magazine! It is an analysis I did of the past 25 years of the Miss Massachusetts America Pageant. No Miss Massachusetts has ever won Miss America– and only one queen from a New England state has ever won, for that [...]

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