Newspaper Page Text
Friday, December 9, 1966
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
PagaRftMa
/
Greetings
ELLIOTTS
STUDIO
3156 Piedmont Rd., NE.
Color Portraiture—
Weddings and
Bar Mitzva
237-4644
Bess Myerson
Has a Secret
But despite the many irons in
the fire, she finds spare time for
a weekly French lesson, and she
is now busy preparing for an-
By Fred A. Stern
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Anywhere between forty and
eighty million people a week see
Bess Myerson on the several tele
vision shows in which she ap
pears. She is best known as one
of the permanent panelists of
“I’ve Got a Secret.” She is one
of the experts at ferreting out
the secrets of others, but she has
her own secret too.
Maybe you can guess it. Here
are a few hints that may help
you.
She will play a central part
in the coming Hanuka Festival of
Israel Bonds at Madison Square
Garden.
She is chairman of the
Women’s Division of Israel Bonds
in New York.
She has made three trips to
Israel.
How far are you
looking ahead?
What stocks should you buy?
What stocks should you sell?
The answers are not the same for every investor. Personal
investment needs and objectives vary with individuals and
from time to time. Changing conditions often alter the out
look for individual companies. Why continue to hold a se
curity which fails to serve the purpose for which it was
purchased?
But we are in a position to help you in arriving at your
decision.
Our sources of information and all of our facilities are
available to help you make those decisions.
Call on one of our Representatives.
Securities are their business.
SoM/'t4 $
Extahhxheri 192 5
Investment Bankers
Members New York Stock Exchange and Other National
Exchanges
11 Marietta Street, N.W. Lenox Square
Tel. JA. 1-0231 Atlanta, Georgia Tel. 231-45M
For market summaries 3 times dally, Dial JA. 3-3991
Both offices opon from f:30 A.M. until 11:30 PiA.
on Saturdays for consultation
90% of our
business is
service calls
from home and business owners
Service work for the individual is our
specialty. Immediate attention, a tremend
ous experience in dealing with a home
owner’s service problems are only a few
of the many extras that Melton-McKinney
offer you. Next time you have a problem,
try us—we’ll guarantee your satisfaction.
Melton-McKinney i”
432 E. HOWARD AVE., DECATUR DR. S-4622-DR. 7-2633
IRA B. MELTON - CHAS. D. McKINNEY, JR.
other visit to Israel.
Shortly after New Year, she
hopes to be calling out again to
her friends in Israel, “Shalom.”
You give up?
Well, its very simple. She has
a deep interest in Israel.
The roots go back to her child
hood. She was reared in a very
good Jewish home. Bess Myer
son is her real name, not just her
stage name. She amusingly re
calls that once, speaking before
a youth group in the Middle West,
she was asked why she has
chosen the stage name of Bess
Myerson.
Jewish thinkers and writers
were respected in her home and
talked about. Jewish newspapers
came into her home and she
learned to read and speak Yid
dish. She was sent to one of the
Sholom Aleichem schools to
help her perfect her Yiddish and
knowledge of Jewish life.
There were three Myerson
girls. Her two sisters are in the
educational field. She studied
the piano but when someone en
tered her name in the beauty
contest at Atlantic City and
Bess emerged as Miss America,
she found herself projected in the
public eye. She was something of
a phenomenon. Beauty with
brains. No one expects Miss
America to be able to quote
Shakespeare or even to know that
he existed. When there is a fash
ion of beauty with brains, history
is due for an explosion. If Cleo
patra’s nose had been a little
longer, Pascal wrote, the course
of history would have been
changed. The Megillah tells the
story of how a beauty contest
winner of ancient times, Esther,
saved her people from the sinis
ter designs of the anti-Semite.
Miss Myerson was greatly in
terested in the establishment of
the State of Israel, but when she
made her first visit, she expected
it only to be routine. She plan
ned a ten day visit. But after ten
days, she couldn’t let go. She
stayed for two months.
On one of her visits, she took
her daughter, Barbara, now at
Bryn Mawr. There was a special
reason for this. Both her daugh
ter and the new state of Israel
were born in the same year and
when Israel celebrated her 13th
anniversary she wanted her
daughter and Israel to celebrate
the bar mitzva together. Her
daughter too is very fond of
Israel.
“I guess,” Miss Myerson said,
“I have seen Israel from one end
to the other.”
“From Dan to Beersheba,” we
said.
“No,” she corrected, “you know
the border today is not Beersheba
but further down in the Negev,
Eilat. You know,” she went on,
“I spent quite a bit of time at
Eilat. One day we arose there at
four in the morning to go on a
kind of scouting expedition of the
desert.”
Miss Myerson has a profound
respect for Ben Gurion. "There
is an aura about him that one
feels when you come into his
presence.”
When it was first proposed
that she become Chairman of the
New York Women’s Division of
Israel Bonds, she was reluctant,
asking time to think it over. She
didn’t want to take the job, she
said, unless she felt she could be
really effective at it.
She has been very effective.
“It’s intriguing,” she says. “The
quotas are generally increased
every year, but somehow we
manage to attain them!”
She enjoys too her.part in the
annual Hanuka festival at Madi
son Square Garden when lead
ing personalities of Hollywood,
Broadway and the concert world
raise the torch of the Maccabees
and help sell Israel Bonds.
Miss Myerson is also on the
Executive Committee of the Anti-
Defamation League. “I guess,”
she says, “I am at least an hon
orary member of about every
Jewish organization. I don’t see
how in the world of today, any
one can remain unaffiliated.”
GRACIOUS GREETINGS
^ante a Jf^air f-^er&onnet
ervic•
Gracious Greetings
MARVEL Cleaners
ATLANTA, GA.
2231 Cheshire Bridge Road, N. E.
MElrose 6-1681
Our wa
es
Brewer-Head Co.
41 Pryor St, N.E.
ATLANTA, GA.
JA. 3-2514
* *
J I
★
*
*
★
★
Gracious Greetings
CONTINENTAL AIR PARTS, INC
* 1551 Washington Ave.
