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九年级英语AnnLanders
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Ann Landers, 1918-2002:
She Helped Millions of People Deal With Their Problems
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I'm Mary Tillotson.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about advice writer Ann Landers.
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VOICE ONE:
Ann Landers
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Many newspapers in the United States have writers who give advice. Some are experts about issues like gardening, food, health or money. People will write to the expert about a problem and he or she will try to solve it.
There also are advice writers who deal with the more personal issues in life. They answer questions about all kinds of things—love, children, mental health problems, morals. This was the kind of advice column that Esther Lederer wrote. She wrote it under the name of Ann Landers.
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Miz Lederer did not study to become a newspaper writer. In fact, she did not finish her university studies at Morningside College, in Sioux City, Iowa.
She was born in Sioux City on July fourth, nineteen eighteen. Her parents named her Esther Pauline Friedman. Esther's younger sister was born a few minutes later. She was given the same two first names in opposite order--Pauline Esther. The twins, Eppie and Popo as they were called, had two older sisters.
奶茶配料表Their father, Abraham Friedman, had come to the United States from Russia. He sold chickens when he first arrived. Soon, he became a successful businessman who owned movie theaters in veral states.
Eppie said she owed a lot to her parents and her childhood in the Middle West. She says both provided her with morals and values that helped her a lot in life.
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Eppie Friedman was in college when she met Jules Lederer. She left school to marry him in nineteen thirty-nine. Mister Lederer was a businessman. He helped establish a car rvice called Budget Rent-A-Car. It became very successful. Mister and Missus Lederer had their first and only child, Margo, in nineteen forty.
For years Eppie Lederer was happy to stay home and rai her child while her husband's business grew. They lived in Wisconsin at first. Missus Lederer became politically active in the Democratic Party there.
In nineteen fifty-five, the Lederers moved to Chicago, Illinois. That same year, the Chicago
Sun-Times newspaper held a competition among its employees. The paper wanted to find a replacement for its advice columnist who wrote under the name Ann Landers. Eppie Lederer heard about the competition from a friend at the paper and decided to enter. She was one of thirty people who sought the job.
The competition was simple. Competitors were given veral letters from people requesting help on different issues. The person who wrote the answers the newspaper officials liked best would win the job.
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Missus Lederer ud the help of powerful friends to decide the best advice. For example, one letter writer asked about a tree that dropped nuts on her property. The tree grew on land owned by someone el. The letter writer wanted to know what she could do with the nuts.
Eppie Lederer decided that this was really a legal question so she sought help from a friend who knew about the law. That friend just happened to be a judge on the United States Supreme Court! Another letter was about a Roman Catholic Church issue. So Eppie Lederer talked to the president of a famous Catholic university, Notre Dame.
The Chicago Sun Times reportedly called Missus Lederer a few days after the competition ended. When she answered the telephone a newspaper official said "Good Morning, Ann Landers."
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VOICE ONE:
The new Ann Landers discovered the job was not easy. She reportedly was deeply affected by many of the sad letters she received from troubled people. Missus Lederer later said that one Sun-Times editor helped her harden herlf to tho stories. He said she must parate herlf from her readers and their problems. She said she would not have been successful in her work if it were not for that advice.
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Ann Landers' popularity grew quickly. She immediately established herlf as different from advice writers of the past. She became known for her easy writing style and her often funny answers. She related to her readers as if they were old friends. She emed to say exactly what she thought, even when doing so might hurt the feelings of tho eking help. Most people considered Ann Landers' advice to be good, common n.
