Ron Brown

Ronald George Brown worked for Reuters, the Times diary, the Evening Standard ‘Londoner’s Diary’ and Associated Press. He also worked for the embryo United Nations in 1944. He was a heavy smoker and developed lung cancer, as well as T.B. Owing perhaps to a mild case of polio in his childhood he had impaired back and leg muscles which affected his walk and he later on he developed muscular dystrophy of the legs. He started having lessons with F. M. Alexander from about 1946-47 and, from then until his death, he continued to have lessons as frequently as he could manage, if not with F. M. Alexander, then John Skinner or Walter Carrington. His wife, the writer Joan Aiken reported that ‘He always returned absolutely revivified from his sessions with F. M. Alexander; he said that the sensation was literally like “walking three or four inches above the ground.”