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...Advertising is a marvelous field for women. They have a warm personal approach and a concern for things that is very valuable. And there is certainly no gender in ideas." The speaker, not surprisingly, was a woman: Margot Sherman, 48, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., named last week, by the Advertising Federation of America, as Advertising Woman of the Year...
Anne, her sister Margot, and her father and mother were first taken to Westerbork prison in The Netherlands, then shipped by cattle car to Auschwitz. Recalls a woman fellow prisoner: "The doors of the cars were opened violently, and the first thing we saw at Auschwitz was the garish light of the searchlights trained on the cars . . . The voice of a loudspeaker dominated all others; it bellowed: 'Women to the left, men to the right!' I saw them go away: Mr. Van Daan, Mr. Dussel, Peter, Mr. Frank." The men never saw the women again. The women were...
...Belsen. Single file, the undressed women were ordered into a hall where, seated behind the glare of a searchlight, a doctor chose this one for Belsen, that one for the gas chamber. "Anne's face remained unchanged, even in the cruel light of the projector. She took Margot's arm and they came forward. I can see them now, stripped naked. Anne turned her serene face toward us; then they were led away. It was impossible to see what happened behind the light, and Mrs. Frank cried: 'The children! My God! My God!' " In the hell...
...Ashton whipped out his piece last year in honor of the company's 25th anniversary; it proved to be a sequined, dazzling showpiece for 14 soloists, and a convincing demonstration of the kind of high-caliber reserve talent the Royal Ballet can call on when it needs to. Margot Fonteyn's enchainement (linked movements) looked as poised and effortless as everybody expected; there was also some lithe, beautifully filigreed dancing by Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Svetlana Beriosova. Solitaire, a less panoplied affair, unfolded the story of a girl who does not belong, and tries to break into...
Arriving in Manhattan to dance the title role in NBC-TV's go-minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...