Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into radio announcing and comedy when Austen Johnson met him in Manhattan's NBC offices in 1935. Dressy Austen Johnson was born in England in 1909, is vague about what he did between then and the '30s when he began arranging BBC musical programs including one of sweet tunes which he called "Organized Seduction." In 1935 he sailed to the U.S. to do a program for NBC. He was not much impressed with Alan Kent, who had been recommended to him as an announcer, but a later meeting and a drink led to their partnership...
...Marine Corps. The procession wound its way to the highest hill in Arlington National Cemetery, not far from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, to a tomb beneath the grey steel mast of the U.S.S. Maine. There, to the measured boom of a 19-gun salute and the long, sweet notes of "Taps," Manuel Quezon was laid to rest...
...York's Executive Mansion while their husbands talked campaign strategy (see U.S. AT WAR). They talked of the Dewey children, and Mrs. Bricker remarked on how nicely they "melted out of the room." Said Mrs. Dewey: "Oh, you're just being guestly, but it's very sweet of you." When the conversation got round to hobbies, Mrs. Bricker admitted that she collected early American glassware, but Mrs. Dewey said she had dropped her hobby: "When I was very young, I collected elephants, and look what...
...country town. The Chamber of Commerce pretends we want to be a city, and that leads us into many expensive follies. . . ." Her advice to Quitman's young ladies: "No more sophistication, my fine feathered females. You'd better be good and innocent and sweet, dewy and unspoiled-at least you'd better look that...
Morton Downey, who grosses $250,000 a year from radio alone, has no such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...