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...temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain's wife. Eliza changed her name to Lola Montez, and under the protection of two great and good friends, Lord Malmesbury and Lord Brougham, made her stage debut in London as a Spanish dancer. The show closed, but a star was born...
...Manhattan's United Nations Plaza. He reads newspapers and magazines, and works out for a while in his den gym. By 2 p.m., his chauffeur, one of the Carson staff of five (none of whom live in), ferries Johnny to his Radio City office in a 1967 Fleetwood Brougham...
...that humility was ever a problem for Brougham. In his 56 years with the P.L, he has been more the kindly cheerleader than the captious critic. Easily the most popular sportswriter in the Northwest, he turns out homespun stories, and often winds up a column with what he calls a "pome," such as his piece of doggerel about a football recruiter: "He checks the young man's height and weight;/Can he kick and pass and run?/But here's the question the coach asks first:/'And how are your grades...
Lifetime Vacation. When he is not covering sports, Brougham enjoys doing good. A tireless civic booster, he led a successful campaign to desegregate Seattle's golf courses and bowling alleys. Asked to raise money for the Olympic Games fund, he talked the Harlem Globetrotters into playing Seattle University, and persuaded Louis Armstrong to perform at half time...
...Brougham, whose wife died last year, has spent so much of his time spending money on others that he never got around to spending any of his inheritance on himself. "My life has been one long vacation because I have been paid for doing the thing I like best." He is worried about the effect of money on today's athletes. "It's not sport any more," he complains, "when a baseball player gets $100,000 a year. The sportsman is the guy who goes out there for a brass medal and honor, not just for the money...