MORE THAN A PRETTY FACE

Melissa Ludtke

August 11, 1975

In a medium swarming with pretty faces it seemed inevitable that Phyllis George would reappear on television. Viewers first saw her on a September evening in 1970, when she came on the air as Miss Texas and went off a few hours later as Miss America. Still, her debut was not entirely auspicious; no sooner had she received her crown than it fell from her head, and she had to bend down in front of a TV audience of millions to retrieve it. Now George has returned to television in a different role—and this time she has gotten off to a more propitious start. After seven months of working on pretaped interviews that were incorporated into CBS' coverage of a variety of athletic events, she is appearing live as co-hostess of the network's Sports Spectacular.