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Bert Parks spent a quarter-century as the voice of American pageantry, hosting the Miss America telecast from 1955 to 1979 and turning "There She Is, Miss America" into a piece of national kitsch recognizable even to people who never watched the show. Before that he built a career as a radio and television announcer and singer, work that made him one of early television's most familiar on-screen presences.