Press: There She Goes, Miss America

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Williams was allowed to keep $125,000 or so she earned in personal-appearance fees while she held the title, as well as a $25,000 college scholarship. Certain penalties were exacted, however, Kellogg's stopped distribution of a promotional box of cereal with Williams' picture on the front. It was, after all, a particularly American kind of retribution. No crown. And no cornflakes.

— By Jay Cocks.

Reported by Dorothy Ferenbaugh/New York

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