Word: teichman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born Murray Teichman 43 years ago in Manhattan, Arthur Murray had some dancing experience before he took a business course at Georgia School of Technology. He made money teaching dancing in Asheville, N. C. and Atlanta before he left college in 1921. He set up in Manhattan in 1923, now has eight floors on East 43rd Street and grosses $500,000 a year. Typical Murray pupil is a businessman over 40 who pays $100 for 20 lessons. With 260 people on his $8,000-a-week payroll, Arthur Murray prefers Southern girls as teachers (he finds them forceful but gracious...