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...Coast Guard Depot outside Baltimore. Searching for some more interesting avocation than drinking needled beer, he turned up on an amateur hour at station WFBR. With his banjo and one-octave voice, he landed a birdseed company as a $5-a-show sponsor. He also picked up another chore-introducing the speeches of Maryland's late, belligerently anti-dry Governor Albert Ritchie. When Godfrey was offered a full-time job on WFBR, the governor helped him get his separation from the Coast Guard...
Frank Carney, retired Superintendent of the Buildings of the College Library, died yesterday at 88. Carney began work at the College as a chore boy when 12 years old, and worked his way up the ranks until he was appointed superintendent...
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Brokenshire's latest comeback to radio appears to be sticking. It began with an announcing chore in 1945 on Theatre Guild on the Air. Then, two years ago, New York's WNBC signed him up to do Take It Easy, a half-hour (later expanded to 45 minutes) daytime disc-jockey show. His easy microphone manner and his new reliability made him a solid hit with both audience and sponsor. Soon, he picked up another show, the morning Melody Time. Last week one more was added: Inner Sanctum...
...Which of these results it has will de pend upon what is going on now in the minds of church members and ministers. If they look upon this as another pious chore, another headquarters' brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break...