Polish Jews Recall War R evolt in Bialystok
'45's Miss America May Steal the Show
LONDON (JTA) — Polish Jews I solemn pilgrimages to several sites
held a commemorative meeting at in the countryside outside the city,
Bialystok, observing the annivers- which the Nazis had used as ex-
ecution locations for Jews; and to
ary of the
revolt
in Nazi
that regime
city's the
in the
the memory
Jewish cemetery
ghetto
against
the
— plaque
honoring
of Isaac
but neither the Warsaw govern-
ment nor the local authorities were Melamed, a Jewish hero of the
represented, according to a dis- resistance.
patch from Poland received here.1 The ceremonies had been ar-
ranged the
by the
local branch
of
The memorial meeting was held Zbowid,
Commemorative
So-
at the site of the old Great Syna-
ciety,
whose local head
spoke
at
gogue in the former Jewish center. , the
commemorative
meeting.
Pres-
By MEL HEIMER
ON THE night of September
9, NBC for the second time will
televise the "Miss America Pa-
geant" from Atlantic City, com-
plete with the winner saying
"Who--ME?" and then crying
hysterically. It may be just
that this department prefers
someone a little older, but it
says here that the show's TV
hostess will make the winner
look like the poor little match
girl.
Somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of 40 now. Bess Myerson
still is. in the patois of the peo-
ple I hang around with, a gas-
ser. The years have done noth-
ing to her except make her pret-
tier and more womanly. She al-
ways was direct and honest.
"No," she told me rather firm-
ly, "you CANNOT say that I'm
amused or think it's so terribly
funny, when the new Miss
America is crowned and starts
crying. That's alright for cyn-
ics like you—but I identify with
the girl, I know what a rough
row it is to hoe. Anybody who
wins that title deserves it."
• • •
MISS BESS, a New Yorker
born--she was raised in the
Bronx—was Miss America in
1945, winning the first $5,000
educational scholarship offered
in the contest.. . . and she was
one of the few who didn't cry.
She's not the type. "I could
have, though," she said with a
snide. "Those three preliminary
nights and the final were pretty
grueling, and I remember we
stood around onstage for nearly
20 minutes, right at the end,
waiting for the judges to make
up their minds."
Things in 1945 were a little
wilder and woolier than now;
there was no televising of the
pageant and the proceedings
weren't compressed as tightly
as in 1967 (they have to be off
the air by midnight). So, the
contest in Bess' day was seem-
ingly. at least, longer and more
wearing.
"Actually, I went into it for
one big reason: I wanted that
scholarship, to continue my mu-
sical studies," she said. "After
winning. I made a couple
months' appearances as Miss
America. but there was no
year's contract as there is now,
so I got hack to the piano pret-
ty quickly, at Juilliard and La-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, September 1, 1967
TV CAMEOS: Bess .]Iverson
The
synagogue
was put to flames ent also were three leaders of the
Nazis,
by the
and
were Jewish Social and Cultural As-
burned alive in
the 3,000
house Jews
of wor-
ship. The participants also paid sociation.
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Kari Pederson (r.), Miss New York State, may
be younger than Bess Myerson—but prettier?
ter Columbia." At Atlantic City,
she remembered, she played ex-
cerpts from Grieg's piano con-
certo.
Miss Myerson's musical career
was sidetracked, though, first
by marriage and later by TV
panel shows, on which she be-
came one of the reigning queens.
"Candid Camera." "I've Got a
Secret," "The Big Payoff'
(which she did for eight years,
with Randy Merriman) — all
these established her as one of
TV's most familiar faces. Only
once has she tried acting; she
did "Tea and Sympathy" in
summer stock in 1957 and got
fine notices, but that autumn
television called again and that
was the end—at least for the
moment-. of that career.
A Hunter graduate, Bess
earned her way through college
playing piano--she also played
flute in a trio with her two sis-
ters—and at Columbia in 1946
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CHASKELLE RITTER
for three years' drama study
in London, is her pride and joy.
"If you didn't want to avoid a
cliche," she said, "you'd ask
me what I'd do if I had my life
to live over—and I'd say, zip,
just like that, I'd have six chil-
dren. That's the biggest part of
life and you can quote me."
Some people may turn on TV
Sept. 9 to hear Bert Parks sing
there she goes, Miss what's-
her-name. Me, I'll be hanging
around the set to watch the
hostess. They don't hardly make
'em like that any more.
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HER daughter Barra, heading
Two Synagogues Robbed, One Desecrated in S. Africa
sanctuary was desecrated. At the premises.
YOUNG ISRAEL CENTER OF OAK-WOODS
conducted an all-girl orchestra.
That same year she was a guest
soloist with the New York Phil-
harmonic Orchestra. She hasn't
abandoned music. "I've been
playing more and more, this
past year," she said, "and may-
be I'll really do something with
it yet."
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)—Two same time. a safe containing the
local synagogues were burglarized congregation's archives was broken
and one of them was descrated, it I open, and the record books were
was reported here by police au- , stolen along with linens. crockery
thorities. who pledged that they and tither items. At the Yeoville
Synagogue. cupboards were broken
were hunting for the criminals.
open, the contents stolen. as well
At the Hasidic Synagogue, the as some petty cash kept on the
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