SHORT TAKES : Miss USA Won’t Boycott Pageant
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DETROIT — Miss USA, Carole Gist of Michigan, is upset about not getting all the $144,000 in prizes she won last year but won’t boycott the 1991 Miss USA pageant, her lawyer says.
Gregory Reed also says he objects to a contractual clause preventing Gist, 21, of Detroit, from using her title in commercial endorsements for two years.
Gist has missed all her 1991 appearances as Miss USA. Pageant officials said she’s been ill. Reed said his client is well enough now to work and will appear at this year’s pageant, to be televised Feb. 22 from Wichita, Kan., on CBS-TV.
Mike Clark of Los Angeles-based Madison Square Garden Productions, which is putting on the pageant, said he couldn’t comment on Reed’s allegations.
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