Listen Music – Upload Audio – Biography – Mary Kay Ash_ 19… I’m Mary Tillotson. And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. This week, we tell about one of the most successful American businesswomen. Mary Kay started a company in nineteen sixty-three with a five thousand dollar investment. Today, […]
Share Music – Embed Audio – Biography – Madam C.J. Walke… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Rich Kleinfeldt with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States. Today we tell about Madam C. J. Walker. She was a businesswoman, […]
Listen Music Files – Download Audio – Biography – Katharine Graham… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Katharine Graham. She was the owner and publisher of The Washington Post newspaper. Katharine Meyer Graham was once described as “the most powerful woman […]
Music File Hosting – Audio Hosting – Biography – Henry Ford Made … PEOPLE IN AMERICA — a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Every week at this time, we tell the story of a person important in the history of the United States. Today, Steve Ember and Frank Oliver complete the […]
Music File Hosting – Play Audio – Biography – Henry Ford_ 1863… PEOPLE IN AMERICA — a program in Special English on the VOICE of America. Every week at this time, we tell the story of a person was important in the history of the United States. Today Steve Ember and Frank Oliver begin the […]
Music File Hosting – Listen Audio Files – Biography – Wilma Rudolph_ 1… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. They called her “the Black Pearl,” “the Black Gazelle” […]
Embed Music – Listen Audio – Biography – Roberto Clemente… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Roberto Clemente. He was one of the most honored baseball players in history. He became the first Latino baseball player to be included in the Baseball […]
Play Music – Audio Hosting – Biography – Lou Gehrig_ 1903… Now, the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. A North American Major League baseball record was established in nineteen thirty-nine. The man who set it played in two thousand one hundred thirty games without missing one. In nineteen ninety-five, the record was broken […]
Upload Music Files – Upload Audio – Biography – Kay Yow_ Betty J… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports: golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow. Both women were founders of women’s […]
Music Hosting – Listen Audio Files – John Wooden (1910-2010) – Ba… This is the VOA Special English Education Report. John Wooden died last Friday (June 4, 2010) at the age of ninety-nine. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports. He was an excellent college basketball player. He led Purdue University to […]