"Wonderama" Bob McAllister dead?

[Matt Hasson]

I saw it mentioned in some fanzine that he died recently. Anyone know
if this is true and what the details are? He couldn't have been that
old. I remember that show on New York's WNEW ch. 5. He also hosted
the "Little Miss America" pagent back in those days.

Matthew

[Ann Linderman]

Matt Hasson wrote:

Sadly, this is true. He died in July of last year, between the deaths of Roy
Rogers and Buffalo Bob Smith. He was only 63, but he had been a heavy smoker
and died of lung cancer.

Ann Linderman (please reply to Annlindgk @aol.com)

[Brad Ferguson]

In article <19990921091934...@ng-fh1.aol.com>, Ann
Linderman <manil...@aol.comnoreply> wrote:

> [McAllister] also hosted the "Little Miss America" pagent back in
> those days.

Anyone remember Little Frankie Michaels? He was a kid, perhaps 10
years old in 1966, who always sang the Little Miss America song at the
annual pageant at Palisades Amusement Park. (I don't know if this
kiddie pageant had anything to do with that bathing-beauty thing
they're still holding elsewhere in New Jersey.)

Little Frankie's moving rendition of the Little Miss America Anthem was
repeated endlessly throughout New York Channel 11's broadcast day in
commercials for the pageant, which the station co-sponsored:

Little Miss America
Little Miss America
Like a candy box all wrapped in gold
With a button nose, cute as she can be
Everywhere she goes, everybody knows
Little Miss America is she.