European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Fles Myerson Here with new York s mayor de Koch stepped Down from her Post a the City s cultural a fairs commissioner due to juror Over her connection with a contractor under grand fury investigation. Bess Myerson sex miss America under pressure by Jane Gross new York times rated before her television set one of Bess Ryeison s friends watched now York Gly s cultural affairs commissioner sail out of a Long and trying meeting last month with Koch administration officials and past a Angle of clamouring Rotor Lars Ryerson looked regal and unperturbed the Iriondo noted Wilh her Chin lipped upward at a Jaunty Angle despite the act that her career was on the line and her personal life the subject of Public scrutiny. Tha Friend said she had two thoughts As Myerson s silent image crossed the screen Hal the 62-year old City official celebrated As a former miss America had again demonstrated her Grace under pressure but at the same time had once again demonstrated that her Dilli celtics were consistently in her personal nol her professional life Myerson s Salas troubles have Lakon a toll in hidden emotional ways several of her friends and colleagues said after she announced in january that she would take a leave of absence from her City government Post because of a juror Over her connection with a contractor under grand jury investigation Wilhour advising City officials my Orson invoked to fifth ammend Rnell before Iho grand jury in december 1o the consternation of a or Edward i Koch her Mentor a Brj Friend the contractor curl a Capasso. 41. Is Myc iian s regular companion their relationship figured prominently in Cap i of s divorce proceeding a a Olfa cled Bailie that has spurred innuendo Aboul Myerson for the last to years it s worn Hei Dov n. Said David Garth the Media consultant who ran Myerson s unsuccessful primary Campaign for the democratic nomination for u s senator in 1980, she s been under a Strain tic cause of this  Myerson s friends Nole that whal May scorn a storybook life has. In fact been a succession of hard times that she has survived with grit and humor they mention her working class upbringing in the Bronx and How the $5.000 first prize at the miss America Pagean permitted the Purchase of a piano. They mention two Stormy marriages thai both ended in divorce the years of raising a daughter alone and a bout with cancer in Iho 1970s. Thoy mention a dogged Effort to win professional respect thai was not dependent on the Lurn of her ankle or the Flash of her smile. Lately the Strain had been apparent even to strangers. Myerson s friends sounded Bolh Sac and resigned about her emotional stale they described her As a woman with a history of unfortunate love a lairs. Yet a romantic who enters each new relationship with buoyant expectations some of them also noted thai a double Standard seemed to exist in situations where professional and personal Hie intersect that a woman is More Likely than a Man to be critici2ed for such a Dali Oship and also More Likely in stand by a partner despite the consequences. Outsiders saw a different picture of the woman who catapulted to Fame in 1945, near the end of world War ii As the first jew to become miss America in the Wake of h