1.   But local pageant directors rebelled.

2.   Henry lured the Miss Indiana pageant to Terre Haute and now is pageant director.

3.   If Harman had ever been opposed to it, as the Oregon state pageant director maintained, that was too bad.

4.   Some state pageant directors have sued the central organization to revoke the change.

5.   The state pageant director, Ms. Lee, did not answer telephone calls to her office.

6.   This time around, it is an old-fashioned catfight between the national organization and the state pageant directors who do most of the nuts-and-bolts work.

7.   Two convicts escape and pose as gay pageant directors in a small Texas town.

8.   What really gets the state pageant directors going are fundamental questions of the Miss America mission.

9.   But pageant officials put the changes on hold after outraged state pageant directors who like Miss America the way she is went to court to block them.

10.   However, Baraquio said the local pageant director encouraged her to continue.