Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Look. Sergeant Karl Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told...
Every weekday for the past 12½ years Mary Margaret McBride has brought to the air 45 minutes of what she calls "a good radio voice-the kind that pushes itself up against you." For the first 35 minutes she titters through an interview with a celebrity. In the last ten she really goes into her act-mugging through commercials for 13 sponsors (who pay her about $100,000 a year...
...Basic Dark Blue." The picture will show a well-spread, middle-aged (at 47) spinster, who dresses in "basic dark blue" sacks (designed by Nicole de Paris) and replies to almost any statement by clasping her hands, pursing her lips, blinking her eyes and exclaiming: "Goodness!" But Mary Margaret is a brilliant interviewer. With a well-controlled gush she can "soften up" almost anyone to just the sticky consistency her listeners love. She does it with an air of dithery, appreciative interest that soon has most guests babbling as if they had known her for years. Once she had Jimmy...
What she calls her "fannies" follow her home with 500 letters a day and truckloads of presents: dolls, fresh eggs, lazy susans, antimacassars, samplers, crocheted towels, doilies, candy, cookies and an emu egg. More than anything else, the fannies send food. Mary Margaret used to finish almost all of it-eating the icing and leaving the cake, sucking the insides out of chocolates and leaving the shell. But for the past year she has watched her diet...
Business Deal. Mary Margaret grew up in Missouri, studied journalism at the University of Missouri, got a job on the Cleveland Press, went on to the old New York Evening Mail, soon crashed the Satevepost with a profile of Paul Whiteman. By this time she put her business affairs in the hands of Stella Karns, a businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder...