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CULTURE Artistic Stand Off Henrietta Leaver with Pittsburgh sculptor Frank Vittor and his work. In 1935, Leaver, a Miss McKeesport and Miss America, posed for the statue, but objected to its nudity, which she said would damage her reputation. (She’d worn a bathing suit during modeling sessions.) She threatened to sue, but ultimately decided against it after a panel decided it was tasteful. “If you are not proud of your body,” one panelist told Leaver in an account by Mon Valley historian Jason Togyer, “you might as well close up shop.”
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