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By ANNE HEYWOOD
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Nothing pleases me more than)
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learning about husband-and-wife
teams which are doing success-| Cel
fully.
both _ professionally
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personally
So often a husband
and wife will set up a service or
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a business which will be success-
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ful but which will ruin the mar-|
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riage, and just as often a couple
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wili set up a business which is
a lot of fun and makes the mar-
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riage even happier — but ends up|
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in the bankruptcy courts.
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PERFECT EXAMPLE
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The combination, as I say, of
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success financially and maritally
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is rare.
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A perfect example of it is Wini- |
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fred MacCardell Flood and her
husband, Paul Thatcher Flood,
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who teach speech in Winter Park,
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Fla., during the winter season.
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This year they are working with
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a
summer
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Dorothy Shay
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theater in Cooperstown, N. Y.,
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with Flood as manager, and Mrs.
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Flood as
speech and drama
the
coach.
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They have done some remark-
cal
able work because they combine
the specifics of speech techniques
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with the underlying philosophical
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and psychological factors.
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“We work with ages 8 to 80,”
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says Mrs. Flood. “We find that
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youngsters’ grades improve in all
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subjects as they learn to slow
and deepen their speech and to
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breathe
more
naturally.
The
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shallow, fast short breath is not
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nature’s
breath.
Tendencies
toward stuttering, mumbling, and
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self-consciousness are lessened or
for
overcome.
GIVES ADDED POWER
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“Young
adults
with
family
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and/or club problems find that a
ski
relaxed
approach
to
correct
fit
breathing and speech improves
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their general health as well as
specific
speech shortcomings.
Busy executives,
doctors,
law-
yers,
ministers,
and
teachers
their
the
art-
have been surprised at
de:
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added power;
secretaries and
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clerks find new joy in their work.
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“These results do not come
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from any magic on our part, but
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from the students’ absorption in
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the main principle
of good
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speech as we teach it and faith-
Gr
ful practice in changing from
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mumbled speech to free expres-
sion and relaxed depth of tone.
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“We try to bring out the best
for
aspects
of each student's own
isite
personality. We emphasize inter-
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est in the subject and joy in serv-
tol
nce,
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whether speaking publicly
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or privately; this reduces self-
ar
and
consciousness to a minimum and
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you
replaces it with self-confidence.”
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(If you would like a list of good
th
by
books on public speaking, send
our
me a stamped, self-addressed en-
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ning
velope and I'll be glad to forward
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lake
it to you.)
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