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 ...

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 ...