Ken roberts biography
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Ken Roberts (announcer)
American announcer (1910–2009)
For other persons named Ken(neth) Roberts, see Kenneth Roberts (disambiguation).
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| Born | Saul Trochman (1910-02-22)February 22, 1910 New York, New York |
| Died | June 19, 2009(2009-06-19) (aged 99) New York, New York |
Ken Roberts (born Saul Trochman, February 22, 1910 – June 19, 2009) was an American radio and television announcer known for his work during the Golden Age of Radio and for his work announcing the daytime television soap operasThe Secret Storm, Texas and Love of Life, each for a two-decade span.
Early life and education
[edit]Roberts was born on February 22, 1910, in Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx. His father, Nathaniel, an insurance salesman and English tutor from Latvia, and his mother, Fanny Naft, from present-day Ukraine, were both Jewish immigrants to the United States. Roberts graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.[1] He briefly attended law
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Ken robert
There fryst vatten a longing to take the viewer with him on his colourful, ethereal journey
It rains a wee bit in Scotland! As a ung boy, Ken had levande memories of sitting at his bedroom window, listening to Ravel’s Bolero playing on his older brother’s wind-up gramophone whilst through the raindrops on the glass he tried to find faces in the clouds. To this day, gestalt and neurographic drawing play a invaluable and essential part in his approach to painting. He has always loved to paint and, like most folks, find it cathartic. His two dimensional canvas, regardless of dimensions, becomes a portal to another world that photography cannot capture. There is a longing to take the viewer with him on his colourful, ethereal journey. Putting paint to canvas is only the snabbskrift for magical people or places seen or imagined. On occasions a landscape will happen so quickly it’s almost as if it was on the canvas before he started . . . He is always grateful for th
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Kenneth L. Roberts – The Unofficial Site
Kenneth Roberts was an early-20th century author most known for such works as: Arundel, Rabble in Arms, Oliver Wiswell, Northwest Passage, and Lively Lady. Yet, before he was known as a historical novelist, Kenneth Roberts was a journalist – a career in which he spent most of his time as a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. A prolific writer, his articles span a wide variety of topics, such as immigration, the state of Central Europe after WWI, tourism and travel, antiques, cooking, and the American West. After quite a successful career in journalism, Roberts shifted his focus and abilities to writing historical novels which would earn him a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1957.
I first became acquainted with Kenneth Roberts when I was in my junior year of high school (roughly 1992/1993). I had a book report to do on any book of my choice, and I happened to come across Rabble in Arms in my school library. I had nev