June Simms 24 December 2010 SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell about writer Flannery OConnor. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Late in he...
18 December 2010 Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini is shown in chains in this photo circa 1899. BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Harry Hou...
10 December 2010 Maria Callas was one of the best-known opera singers in the world FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. Today, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about one of the most famous opera s...
04 December 2010 BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Milton Hershey. He built one of the sweetest towns in the United States. (MUSIC) BARBARA KLE...
27 November 2010 Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, five years after his first novel SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell about s...
20 November 2010 F. Scott Fitzgerald experienced the wild living of the period, yet wrote about its effect on people as though he were just an observer. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with the Special English...
12 November 2010 Pearl Buck was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. JIM TEDDER: And Im Jim Tedder with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the award-winning...
06 November 2010 Coltrane discovered jazz by listening to the recordings of such jazz greats as Count Basie and Lester Young. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) He was one of the greates...
30 October 2010 The Edgar Allan Poe Museum offers thousands of artifacts of Poe's life and legacy. STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA from VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Edgar Allan Poe,...
23 October 2010 During her lifetime Edith Wharton published about fifty books on a number of subjects. PHOEBE ZIMMERMANN: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. DOUG JOHNSON: And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we...
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