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...known U.S. radio voices in the 1920s and early '30s, who started at New York's WJZ as a news commentator ("How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near his home; of a stroke; in Hauppauge...
HENRY ALLEN WHITE Chesterfield...
...Homburg hat, the Chesterfield coat, the blue suit and the shirt with French cuffs was back driving his Cadillac to his salmon-pink summer house on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Behind him were two months of exhausting campaigning, a 6,000 mile trail that had led him into 148 cities in 40 states. William Edward Miller, 50, the bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns...
...LORD CHESTERFIELD: "Few Would-be servants of God put so much energy into their task as Chesterfield puts into the service of Mammon. The load carried by Bunyan's Christian was almost light compared with the burden imposed by this Worldly Wiseman on his unfortunate offspring. He felt that life held no greater good than to please it and be pleased by it. He tells his son: 'We shall not converse much together, for I cannot stand awkwardness; it would endanger my health...
...will no longer show such athletes as Arnold Palmer, who has been nonchalantly flipping his filter-tip on the grass before sinking a 60-footer, may also abandon such regulars as the menthol sweethearts strolling hand in cigaretted hand, the husky and tattooed Marlboro men, and the Chesterfield panels of distinguished smokers...