Back in the 1930s when Eleanor Roosevelt first went on the air, her high-pitched, uncertain voice "and the piffling quality of some of her remarks made a field day for mimics. Last week, with the able assistance of her daughter Anna, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the air with a new program, and a new radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the tradeĀand flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both clarity of diction and political...
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