Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good evening, Ladies & Gentlemen of the radio audience" has become almost a trademarked phrase to the listening world. It means Graham McNamee. A letter with no other address than that was delivered by the postal service to WEAF, headquarters studio of the National Broadcasting Co. Inc., Mr. McNamee's employer...
Four years ago Graham McNamee walked into WEAF, asked for a job, took a voice test...
...lost his high notes but still sings in concert as a baritone, always including in his program "The Fields O' Ballydare," simple Irish ballad. But he has little time for concerts. Things happen fast in the U. S., and, wherever in the U. S. anything nationally important is happening, Graham McNamee sits there telling the world...
...mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano. His next discourse that will reach the ears of millions will be the World's Series Baseball games, beginning Oct. 5. He is the recipient of many a gift. "Every day is a birthday with Graham...
...Announcer Graham McNamee could scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked...