[5] In September 1945, MacDonnell was named Miss Nashville Air Transport Command, making her the group's "official sweetheart and pin-up girl".
[6] A contemporary newspaper account of the event reported that thousands of people were turned away from the "jam-packed" War Memorial Auditorium in which MacDonnell was selected over 26 other contestants.
Conover had crowned her in the Miss ATC contest, and when he met her again at that fall's Army-Notre Dame football game, he offered her a job, which she accepted.
[13] MacDonnell was named Miss Television 1948,[14] the year in which an article in Life described her on-air persona as being "a cross between professional stage presence and conversational intimacy, between American girlishness and blond sexiness.
[2] In September of that year, MacDonnell and the Norman Paris Trio were shifted from For Your Pleasure to the new half-hour Girl About Town, which ended in June 1949.
WOR in New York carried The Kyle MacDonnell Show, a 15-minute disc jockey program, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings.