Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coolidge & Miss Oklahoma. Born a Scottish Presbyterian minister's son in Murcheson, Ont. 51 years ago, Brokenshire got on radio by answering a want ad for a man with a good voice and a "knowledge of musical terms." He had to be coached on the music terms, but the rich syrup of his voice was a natural. He covered the funeral of William Jennings Bryan ("My hardest job-I hate funerals"), the 1924 Democratic Convention, and the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. In 1927, he was the first to broadcast an Atlantic City beauty contest ("I fell in love with...
...that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says. "I get all kinds of letters telling me how I've helped people. I say to them: 'Keep right on doing what you're doing-as long as it's a good thing you're doing.' A woman wrote me that she was taking a drink from a bottle when I said that. She put it down and hasn't touched it since...
Then the family moved to China. In Shanghai, it was easy to find good Russian teachers. One of them, George Goncharov (who now teaches at Sadler's Wells), recalls that "directly I saw her I knew she had a ballerina's head. Her face-she was very attractive with big, dark eyes-seemed to talk to me. She held herself beautifully. She was always somehow intent, as though she had some idea that she knew what she was about...
...Among her closest friends are Helpmann, Ashton, Dancer Pamela May, the U.S. Ballet Theatre's Nora Kaye and Les Ballets de Paris' Roland Petit (TIME, Oct. 17). With such people Margot enjoys after-theater suppers or whipping up a home-cooked meal and bringing out some really good wine. One of her extravagances is expensive clothes, but, like most ballerinas, she darns the toes of her own ballet slippers (she brought 40 pairs...
...SECommissioner since 1947, burly, good-natured Harry McDonald has plugged hard & long for a wider understanding of the securities markets by the public, has a wide understanding himself. He worked his way through the University of Chicago, but after two years in law school, dropped out in favor of selling-first ice cream, then securities. Later, he started Detroit's H. A. McDonald Creamery Co., built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined...