Beauty Pageants

HIGH HEELS, HIGHER GOALS: Miss Florida USA (The Palm Beach Post)

19 Jul 2008

This whole beauty queen thing isn't what it used to be.

The 'Mr.' of Miss Texas pageants was colorful, cigar-chomping showman. (Austin American-Statesman)

19 Jul 2008

B. Don Magness, a colorful, cigar-chomping showman dubbed Mr. Miss Texas and credited with shaping the state's beauty pageant into the nation's largest state pageant, has died.

Flamboyant ex-Fort Worth public events titan Magness dies (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

18 Jul 2008

By ANNA M. TINSLEY FORT WORTH — B. Don Magness was, above all things, a showman. He knew how to run a beauty pageant, how to help a contestant win or place and how to turn the city’s Will Rogers complex into a thriving business. Mr. Magness, whose personality was as big and flashy as the Miss Texas pageants he oversaw, died Thursday afternoon. He was 75. "He served the city well and did it with ...