Benny opened with this announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

"Your attention please, ladies and gentlemen. Here is the Yankee line-up.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

We are right next to Iran, ladies and gentlemen, not 10,000 kilometers away, like yourselves living in this wonderful country."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

In nineteen fifty, she and twelve other women founded the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

There's a huge contingent of Russian men that are alcoholics and womanizers and several of the ladies have gone through that and they just don't want that kind of man for their husband."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

And women with breast cancer talk about it openly, including two former First Ladies who spoke publicly about their cancers, Betty Ford in 1972 and Nancy Reagan more than a decade later.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02