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Miss Atomic pageants were held in the United States during the Atomic Age, generally, in Nevada, to celebrate the City of Las Vegas's modernity. ==The Four "Miss Atomics"== The pageants were "inspired by the cultural phenomena, Las Vegas decided to combine two of its major attractions – nuclear bombs and showgirls – into a beauty contest". There were only four "showgirl-turned-beauty-queens" and "there was no single Miss Atomic Bomb beauty pageant, and most of the queens were simply showgirls chosen for their radiant ... looks".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=4 Atomic-Themed 1950s Beauty Queens )〕 "The queens came about in an only loosely related manner: atomic-themed, usually of the mushroom cloud variety, costumes."〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Copa Room showgirl Lee Merlin )〕 *The first atomic pin-up girl, Candyce King, appeared on May 9, 1952 in the “Evening Telegraph” (Dixon, Illinois) and the “Day Record” (Statesville, North Carolina) papers as “Miss Atomic Blast.〔 *In the spring of 1953, the city of North Las Vegas chose Paula Harris as Miss North Las Vegas of 1953 and gave her the nickname “Miss A-Bomb.”〔〔 *In 1955, Operation Cue drew attention when it was delayed multiple times because of high winds and was nicknamed “Operation Mis-Cue.” Linda Lawson was crowned “Miss Cue” on May 1, 1955. The title was “to illustrate another mis-firing of the Operation Cue Bomb.” Lawson’s "crown" was a mushroom cloud.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Winner of ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ Pageant )〕 *The last and most famous was Lee A. Merlin was crowned as “Miss Atomic Bomb”, coinciding with Operation Plumbbob, while wearing a cotton mushroom cloud on the front of her swimsuit. The popular photograph by Don English was distributed nationally. She was the last “Miss Atomic Bomb.”〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Miss Atomic Bomb: the A-Bomb in Popular Culture--Comics, Cakes and the Will of God )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Miss Atomic Bomb, 1957 )〕 Don English of the Las Vegas Sun photographed her.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miss Atomic (pageants)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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