Background
Norma Lee Browning was born on November 24, 1914, in Spickard, Missouri, United States. She was a daughter of Howard R. and Grace (Kennedy) Browning.
Columbia, MO 65211, United States
In 1937, Norma received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Norma received a Master of Arts in English from Radcliffe College in 1938.
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When the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos approached Norma Lee Browning to write his story, her reply was blunt: "You know better than to ask me I'm the one who exposes people like you." Norma Lee Browning is a professional skeptic - a journalist with a reputation for exposing frauds and charlatans. Hurkos persisted. The result is this incredible book in which Browning, skeptic, proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Peter Hurkos is a man with phenomenal psychic powers - a man who can conjure up the past, envision the future and describe people and places he has never seen. Hurkos has also participated in missing persons and murder investigations across the United States.
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1970
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Interviews with friends, family, and peers profile the life and achievments of Joe Maddy, founder of the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
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1992
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Norma Lee frankly describes her doubts and the errors she made in identifying the birds her husband tried to photograph. She also concludes, from her close observation of the hummers, that "the experts" are wrong on many counts. But the miracle that provides the heart-warming conclusion to this unusual story involves Russell Ogg's eyesight. His sight improved. His eye doctor said he saw better than it was possible for him to see.
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2000
Norma Lee Browning was born on November 24, 1914, in Spickard, Missouri, United States. She was a daughter of Howard R. and Grace (Kennedy) Browning.
In 1937, Norma received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri, and a Master of Arts in English from Radcliffe College in 1938.
Norma and her husband, Russell Ogg settled in Los Angeles in 1942, where she worked for the Herald Express until joining the Chicago Tribune in 1944 as an investigative reporter. She stayed at the paper until the mid-1970s. During those years she wrote several books, the first of which, City Girl in the Country and Other Stories, was published in 1955. Others include Joe Maddy of Interlochen and The Other Side of the Mind.
She then segued to features writing for the Tribune and for many years, but continued to cover assignments worldwide. In 1968, the Tribune assigned her to cover the Hollywood beat, replacing the venerable Hedda Hopper. In addition to her syndicated column, she wrote features for Sunday supplements and magazines, with her husband as her photographer.
Browning co-wrote books like The Honourable Mr. Marigold: My Life with Everett Dirksen, co-authored with the senator’s widow Louella; and Ann Miller’s autobiography, Miller’s High Life. She wrote other books on topics ranging from hummingbirds to astrology and contributed articles to magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Reader’s Digest.
(When the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos approached Norma Lee ...)
1970(Interviews with friends, family, and peers profile the li...)
1992(Norma Lee frankly describes her doubts and the errors she...)
2000Browning covered issues like drug addiction, southern white migration and overcrowded military hospitals while on staff of the Tribune.
Norma was a member of the Theta Sigma Phi, and Kappa Tau Alpha.
Ms. Browning was eccentric enough that she wrote books on the occult later in her career and filled her California house with hundreds of clown paintings given to her by celebrities she interviewed in her nine years as a Hollywood columnist.
Quotes from others about the person
"She was a very direct lady, but gentle, and she didn't put up with any nonsense from anybody. Her interest was investigation and traveling around the world." - Vera Servi, a retired Tribune staff reporter and Ms. Browning's onetime assistant.
"Definitely, she was a tough gal - she had to be. For that era, she was an exceptional woman journalist. Her name was always kind of awe-inspiring." - Sheila Wolfe, a retired associate editor at the Tribune
On June 12, 1938, Norma married Russell Joyner Ogg, a Chicago Daily News photographer.