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mmm9 1 Theaters Television Deaths Want Ads Comics 4C 5C 7C 7-I2C I3C ROCHESTER, N.Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974 Conversation with a most formidable woman Henderson By SALLY QUINN Washington Post WASHINGTON At a recent dinner party someone asked to meet her. She was pointed out but the man said. "No, no, I wanted to meet Francoise Giroud, the French minister for women." "But that is Francoise Giroud," he was told. "Oh," he said. "But she doesn't look at all like what I expected." "When I meet people," she will say in best the current president Giscard d' Es-taing on television and campaigned publicly against him, still, he begged her to join his cabinet after his election.

It has often been said of her that every man in France wants to take her to bed, yet she is respected professionally by the best known intellectuals in her county. To live just for the sake of living has never held any interest for me, I want to live well she has written in her new autobiography "I Give You My her delicate French accent, "they expect me to be enormous." She spreads her arms wide "and they expect me to talk loud," and she speaks loudly in a gruff voice, then laughs. "But women are not threatened by me and neither are men. The more radical you are the more soft you have to be in words and attitudes. I don't yield on important things but I can accept tradition in the little things.

I can act like a lady in little things, like fixing a whiskey. They are important, those little things, but I can give in on them because I am so radical." Francoise Giroud, 58, is Madam Le Ministre. She is probably the most formidable woman in France. She co-founded and for a time ran singlehandedly the largest news magazine in the country, L'Express. She has taken on the most ferocious politicians, and though she managed to '9Cf Wt It rfT 9rfl ST 9riJ bxI loi TV ''IK UK 10.

Word," which she is in America to promote. She describes herself as shy, passive, modest and feminine. "Aren't women going to be paralyzed with fear," she writes, "that they may lose their femininity?" "As though femininity is something you can lose the way you lose your pocketbook. hmm, where in the world did I put my femininity?" She also describes herself as competitive, strong, obstinate, provocative. She is the kind of woman who acts, who gets people to act.

In less than three months she' has wrought enormous changes in women's conditions in France and brought attention to others. She was in her room at the Hay Adams Hotel about to leave for a television appearance and a lunch with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, all being squeeezd into her schedule before she went on to New York. She was dressed simply in a navy flowered chalks dress and a white scarf. She is direct and very frank, not surprising for a journalist, but for a politician, extraordinary. "I am not a feminist," she says positively.

"I have no interest in women as such. I have good friends among women. I like to work with them. But I don't like the strident, aggressive types. They are ApX it i J.

mm oil jsG t- t. Off oh An Please turn page Witt's forecasts: es By JIM DETJEN By The Associated Press bullsey HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. In, it Michelle's mother: 'We treat memorandum disavowed Leonard Bernstein and two other musical figures denied yesterday that they put a value on conducter Skitch Henderson's music collection, as in dicated in a letter Henderson sent to the University of Wisconsin. Bernstein and the others testified as government witnesses at Henderson's federal tax-violation trial in New York, "Government Exhibit 13" is a letter from Henderson to the university about his plan to donate music, dated Dec. 31, 1969, which stated in part: "I have sought the advice of Leonard Bernstein, Henry Mancini and Victor Alpert and we feel that a fair evalua tion would be $650 per selection." Asked whether he was consulted by the defendant as to value of the 850 to 1,000 pieces, Bernstein replied "No, sorry to say, no." not terribly familiar with Hen' derson's music," Bernstein comment ed, but said he and Henderson were acquaintances and fond of each other.

Bernstein recalled being "rather upset" early this year when called to the grand jury. Afterward, he phoned Henderson, asking what it was all about, he said. "How come my name is on that letter?" Bernstein recalled asking Henderson. "A clerical error it was left on by mistake," Bernstein said Henderson Answered. Mancini, conductor-composer, and Alpert, librarian of the Boston Symphony, also testified that they did not recall being asked of giving a value.

NBCs 'Monitor 'ending The NBC Radio network said yesterday it is ending its long-running "Monitor" weekend series in February 1975, replacing it with a news service emphasizing news, news features and live sports reports. The network said additional details of the new service, which has no title yet, would be announced in January. "Monitor" has been on NBC since June 1955. Jack Thayer, president of NBC's radio division, said the "Monitor" replacement is part of an over-all restyling of the network. He said the new weekend radio service "will result In more complete, more up-to-the-minute news and information, and a more contemporary feel to the entire network schedule." Ex-Mrs.

Firestone weds Mary Alice Firestone, the former wife of tire scion Russell Firestone, has married a Kentucky coal executive in a quiet ceremony at Palm Beach, Fla. The former Mrs. Firestone, 38, married John Asher, president of the Apollo Fuel Co. Her 1967 divorce from Firestone, grandson of Firestone Tire founder Harvey Firestone, followed a 17-month trial that included testimony the presiding judge said "would have made Dr. Freud's hair curl." Firestone agreed to pay his former wife an expected $1.2 million during her lifetime, at a $2,500 monthly rate.

Vicki a go-go dancer "Miss Vicki." estranged wife of JnW. tainer Tiny Tim, worked as a $5-an-hour go-go dancer to earn enough money to support weir a-year-ora aaugnter, Tulip. Miss Vicki's brief eo-eo career was revealed by the manager of Minnie's Lounge in Camden, N.J., and confirmed by her mother, Emma Budinger. Tne lounge manager, Vic Fanizlo, said Miss Vicki worked neriodicallv ns a dancer until October. "She didn't want us to talk about the fact that she was married to Tiny Tim," Fanizio said.

"She didn't want us to tell anybody." From Staff and Wires Aussies big export? Girl singers see page 4C Television wives wilting on the tube see Marilyn Beck, page 3C 'Michelle knows she'll be stared at' November 1969, meteorologist James 0j Witt took a long look at 30 years of weather charts and predicted in a West- Chester County newspaper that a major winter storm would sweep through the Hudson Valley on Feb. 3, 1970. His fellow meteorologists scoffed. all, one of the basic tenets of me- gn teorology is that it is impossible to fore-1: cast the weather accurately more than 0y three days in advance let alone 90. But on Feb.

3, much to the surprise of If his colleagues, a major storm moved up the coast, dumping heavy rain and snow throughout the Hudson Valley and the1" Northeast. Since that time, the 37-year old Witt, rit who lives in Putnam Valley, has publicly pg forecast seven major storms for the New 1 York City metropolitan area from 90 to 100 days in advance and he has been correct all seven times. Witt, a weather teacher for 12 has formed a consulting meteorologist firm known as "Fleetweather" with Tore Jakobsen of this Dutchess County com-munity. Jakobsen is a former weather- man for radio station WOR in New York rft City. "He's incredible," said Jakobsen referring to Witt.

"He doesn't really know why his method works and neither do Hi but statistical so far it's been perfect." 1rf. Witt, interested in weather since he fit was a boy, believes he has made a 3b major breakthrough in meteorology. "It's all based on the premise that ii! Please turn to 4C rfj her as normal because she IS' He said the Shrine wants to even help accommodate more crippled and burned children, and that is why the program continues to be expanded through such new facilities as the Genetics Research Center in Montreal and the Pediatrics Records Center in Houston, Tex. In addition to these two units, the Shrine of North America has orthoDedic units in Winnipeg and Mexico City, in 16 cities, and three burn units. "Without the Shrine Hospital, where treatment has not cost us one penny, I' con't know what we would have said Mrs.

Holdorf. "That's why we never turn down publicity we're so Michelle has made public appearances for the Shrine. Recently, she was in a Television 'People stare at me because they fashion show. She poses easily for pictures. In fact, she's a celebrity.

"Yes, I know," she said. A Shriner gave her a large stuffed bear. She carries it about and uses it to get out of bed in the morning by throwing it on the floor to cushion her jump. Most of the time she gets around the house without her legs strapped on. "She has a VERY strong right arm," her mother said.

She laughed. Michelle, she says, can put her arm on the floor and "boost her seat up onto a chair. She can go to the potty by herself and is quite in-; dependent." Michelle, who weighs 25 pounds without her feet and 35 pounds with them, is carried to pre-school twice a week. Mrs. Holdorf hopes her daughter will mess of things by trying to force Orlando and his girls into the Sonny and Cher variety show mold instead of developing something for them that better suits their range of talent.

A limited range, at best. CBS has them doing putdown schtick and comedy sketches with guests stars whose abilities are largely wasted. Standard variety show stuff, in other words. Which is too bad because the TV variety hour needs some creative adrenalin to keep it from passing into extinction. Help, however, is apparently not forthcoming from "Tony Orlando and Dawn." It is difficult to imagine a more unfunny opening show than was delivered last night.

William Conrad, who is "Cannon" on CBS, should sue. He had to growl his way through a take-off on "Chico and the Man," in which Orlando was an Eskimo Chico named Shinook. Get it? Then he had to do a swishy torch song to Please turn to Page 6C don't know Michelle says. be able to attend regular school classes next year. However, she takes one crisis at a time.

Michelle is ready anytime. She can count to 100 and more, knows her alphabet and identifies colors. Her sister, Tracy, 7, reads to her, and she concentrates. Michelle has a strong back and good posture and she walks in a rhytmic side-to-side sway, accompanied by the clicking soung of her legs at work. Michelle was fitted for her first ar-tifical legs when she was only 10 months old.

She wore them for the first time the day after her first birthday and began walking at the age of 16 months. The feet have always been large and Please turn to 4C Tony Orlando lis Tony Orlando show is a corned ic disaster By SHIRLEY DAVIS Features and News Service When all the students in her pre-school class were asked to draw pictures of themselves, Michelle Holdorf finished her figure with two arms and two legs-just like everybody's Then she took her crayon and scratched out both legs and one arm. Four-year-old Michelle marches around on stick legs and flat feet of wood and metal. She cuts and colors with an artificial left arm. "I like God, but I would have liked him better if he'd given me legs and another arm," she said.

Her wee voice is soft. Her big blue eyes would melt an iceberg. "She seems to have an understanding with God," her mother, Mrs. David Holdorf of Eldridge, Iowa, explained. "She knows she'll be stared at." Michelle slirugs.

"People stare at me because they don't know me." Among the people who know and never stare at Michelle are the workers at the Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital of Chicago. They made it possible far Mi-fchelle to function at all. Michelle and her mother are two of the many whose lives have been affected for the better by Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children and Burns Institutes. No long ago, Mrs. Linda Price of Ri-verview, approached her six-year-old daughter, Jerilyn at the Shriners Hospital in Greenville, S.C.

and stopped to hug her. But she embraced her gently because an affectionate hug could break the girl's bones. Jerilyn, now being treated at the hospital, has suffered broken bones more than 50 times. She has a calcium deficiency. "We have to keep her alive these early years and pray that her bones will build up calcium as she reaches maturity," said Mrs.

Price. Other exceptional cases can be cited in every state, also every province of Canada and many in Mexico, for since the Shrine program started in 1922, some 173,000 children have been treated, and 6,000 new cases are handled every year. Says Jack M. Straight, Q.C., Shriners Imperial Potentate from New West-, minster, British Columbia: "We are very happy that we have made the future for Michelle and many other children look brighter. They are fine exam-' pies of what we attempt to do through the Shriners Hospitals for crippled Chil dren." By TOM GREEN Television Editor They should tie a yellow ribbon 'round the collective neck of the writers of "Tony Orlando and Dawn" and pull 'til they all turn blue.

The new CBS series, which checked in last night as the first offering of television's second season, was a comedic disaster, even though Tony Orlando fans probably found ecstacy enough in their leader's special brand of candy rock. CBS was right In recognizing showman in Orlando, who, along with musical background partners Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson, made last year's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" one of the all-time giant re-cording hits. The network was right, as well, in acknowledging the bright and bouncy appeal of this trio's upbeat music. Especially to those on the downhill side of Wayne Newton. But in coming up with a vehicle for showcasing its find, CBS has made a i and Dawn v.

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