YOLANDE STAYS SLIM FOR A GLAMOROUS LIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010042-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: April 27, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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5crtaas-Howard Star/ Writer
One of the Capital's most glamorous
hostesses these days is a wealthy widow
a former Miss America who has kept
the same 35-24-35 measurements record-
ed when she won that title 21 years ago.
Over the years she has added only one
pound to the '119 she weighed as the 1951.
Miss America aid is, if anything, more
beautiful.
She entered the competition as 18-
year-old "Miss Alabama," Yolande Bet-
beze.
. Today she is Yolande Betbeze Fox,
widow of a wealthy film 'executive, resi-
dent of a magnificent Federal House in
Georgetown and a hostess to whom few,
If any, say "no."
After Matthew' Fox died :in New York
of a heart attack in 1962, the gorgeous
widow moved here with their daughter
Yolande, called Dolly, who. now is 9
years old.
And 'immediately the rumor mill be-
gan grinding. She was breaking up a
marriage ... she and a prominent archi-
tect were in love ... she was the con-
stant companion of a noted TV news-
man.
In an interview at her home Yolande
tossed her long, glossy black hair, wid-
ened her big brown eyes and laughed.
$he confided:
"Publishers have been after me to
write a book, you know. And the good
Lord knows . I could write a dandy about
,the, men of Washington. But I'm so hap-
'Yolande.Fox and her "beau,"
Cherif Guellal.
py and contented here with Dolly and
Cherif." .
Cherif Guellal, formerly Algerian Am-
bassador here,.- now representing his
country's Scnotrach Oil Company in the
United States, is Yolande's beau.. They
have been a devoted pair for several?
years and their friends expect them to
marry.
Cherif is charismatic, handsome and
intelligent. His business keeps him rush-
Ing between Washington, New York,
Texas and Algeria. Yolande accompa-
nies him on some of his trips and has
visited his family - mother and four
brothers - in Algiers many times.
Cherif has gone with Yolande and
Yolande employs a chef, a chauffeur,
and a maid, Ida James. -
Yolande looks back on what she calls
he "Pageant Years" with no particular
nostalgia. "The Miss America Pageant
is as American as apple pie, but times
have changed," she said.
She was a stormy petrel in those days.
She was no sooner named Miss America
than she refused to pose for cheesecake
art in a bathing suit. The bathing suit
sponsor was so outraged he formed the
Aliss Universe contest.
After her Miss America stint she went
to New York, entered the New School for
Social Research and took private voice
lessons..
"I was a complete maverick," said
Yolande. "No one could understand why
I refused all the movie offers I got and I
got plenty. Then I met Matty Fox, fell in
love and got married in 1954."
A first cousin, Elizabeth Gillette Car-
son and her husband kit, a lawyer with
the Justice Department, are Yolande's
only Eastern Shore relatives. That was
another reason to move to Washington
and buy the former home of CIA Chief
Allen Dulles.
At the moment she is busy redoing
another house on R Street in George-
town. She bought the large, wooden Sa-
vannah-type. house with balconies and a
swimming pool. It was an orphanage
during the Civil War. "I call it their R
Street Beach," she added. "We'll have
parties there and swim all summer. It's
a lot better than carrying American dol-
4rs abroad to swim in Europe."t
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