No idea.

Come on!  Take a stab.

Okay, I'm going to say Bess Myerson...as she was a Bronx girl would won Miss America (hence Atlantic City) and I'll say Bert Parks....as he is the only emcee I know that did it that long ago.  

Bess Myerson almost didn't get to the competition.  Her family was very poor and her father didn't have enough gasoline in his car to make the trip.  He came to my father's butcher shop as the family shopped there and my father gave him money to gas up the car. 

The answer is that Fiorello LaGuardia said that to Bess Meyerson at a reception for her after she was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City.