There was Miss Lois on the floor, having just performed a Sleeping Beauty-like faint during Tell a Story Time on "Romper Room." Innocent enough. But her skirt hiked up in the fall, exposing a patch of ...

But 50 years ago, Lois Whitmeyer notes, that flickering, black-and-white TV show was cutting-edge. And in a time when a Do-Bee meant something altogether different than today, Whitmeyer was one of a ...

“Miss Mary Ann” King never stopped reminding people how special they are. Long after she left the children’s television show “Romper Room,” King continued to carry her Magic Mirror, a prop she peered ...

The "Romper Room" hostess is mugged and left without her "magic mirror." "Romper Room" teacher Mary Anne King describes a mugging in California that left her without her iconic "magic mirror." ...

Miss Betty on "Romper Room" was a wildly popular TV host watched by legions of Twin Cities kids in the 1960s. Mary Betty Douglass of Minneapolis, the pretend teacher who would hold up her Magic Mirror ...

“Miss Mary Ann” King never stopped reminding people how special they are. Long after she left the children’s television show “Romper Room,” King continued to carry her Magic Mirror, a prop she peered ...

Nancy Stilwell pulls the Magic Mirror out of its protective drawstring bag. The mirror itself has been removed, and the blank frame is dotted with stickers of flowers. Wait a minute — this is not the ...