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Born of working-class parents in Hoxton, London, in 1930, within a few hundred yards of where his paternal grandparents were born, Magee was brought up in a flat above the family clothing shop, where he shared a bed with his elder sister, Joan. [2]
Divorced in 1929, she took the name Dale Evans while working at radio station WHAS (Louisville, Kentucky) in the early 1930s after the station manager suggested it because he believed she could promote her singing career with a short pleasant sounding name that announcers and disc jockeys could easily pronounce.
Ryan McGee is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine [1] and formerly a television producer with ESPN, Fox Sports Net, and NASCAR Media Group. [2] He covers a variety of American sports, but is best known for his motorsports work, particularly NASCAR, and college football.
Willie McGee (c. 1916 – May 8, 1951) was an African American man from Laurel, Mississippi, who was sentenced to death in 1945 and executed on Tuesday, May 8, 1951, after being controversially convicted for the rape of a white woman on November 2, 1945.
Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, [5] in a community of Italian immigrant mill workers. [citation needed] Of Italian-American background, from Capriati a Volturno, Campania, she was the only child of John and Mae Helen Rizzo (née Gianfrancesco). [6]
A typesetter accidentally omitted the 'k', so his name became Chico but the Marxes still pronounced it "Chick-oh", although others sometimes mistakenly pronounced it "Cheek-oh". Numerous radio recordings from the 1940s exist in which announcers and fellow actors mispronounce the nickname, but Chico does not correct them.
Marie Van Brittan Brown's father was born in Massachusetts and her mother was from Pennsylvania. Both were African-American. Marie was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York. [3] Marie married Albert L. Brown, also African-American. The couple lived at 151–158 & 135th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New York. [4] She had no siblings. [5]
When Frank McGee was named host in 1971, he refused to do joint interviews with Walters unless he was given the first three questions. [54] She was not named co-host of the show until McGee's death in 1974 when NBC officially designated Walters as the program's first female co-host. [55] She became the first female co-host of a U.S. news ...