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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Up & Down. Brokenshire reached the top of his trade with such other pioneers as Milton Cross and Ted Husing (both still in radio), Harry von Zell (now in movies and radio on the West Coast) and the late Graham McNamee. By 1930 he had also hit the bottom, and was...
Working briefly on networks and outlying independent stations, Brokenshire was down, then up, then down. In 1943 he joined Alcoholics Anonymous (Forest Hills, N.Y. group) and now feels that he has a better than even chance. Says he thoughtfully: "Sometimes it takes an awful lot of kicking to get a...
Tiaras & Tutus. Five weeks ago, when the Sadler's Wells company of 65 bundled into two Constellations bound for New York the dancers were weighed down with uncertainty. It was costing $50,000 to bring them on their first visit to the U.S.-a place where ballet, while spreading...
But like most genuinely successful enterprises, Sadler's Wells had a lot more than luck. It had a hard-driving director in Ninette de Valois, a graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat...
At Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with...