FILE - In this May 14, 1985 file photo, New York Mayor Edward Koch, left, poses with former Miss America Bess Myerson in New York. Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America who parlayed her stunning 1945 victory into national celebrity, died Dec. 14, 2014, at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 90. She landed a series of television jobs before her appointment as New York City’s chief consumer watchdog in 1969. Myerson helped Koch win the 1977 mayoral race. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File)