Myron Gessner, 17, of Wheeling, W. Va., yesterday won the 1957 Aleph Zedek Aleph International Oratory contest here over a field of seven regional finalists. Howard Denis, 17, of Silver Springs, Md., was runner-up. The contest was one of the events of the 34th international convention of the boy’s division of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization.
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