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...flying on British routes, or the Comet II to be brought out next year. Pan Am's will be the Comet III, which Eastern Air Lines' Eddie Rickenbacker talked of buying (TIME, Sept. 8). The Comet III, said Trippe, will be powered by four Rolls-Royce Avon engines, and will be able to carry 58 first-class passengers (78 tourist class) at cruising speeds of 500 m.p.h. for 2,700 miles nonstop. It "will be the first jet transport," said Trippe, "able to operate efficiently over the principal routes of Pan American...
What with the Memorial Theater, Anne Hathaway's cottage and the constant stream of tourists, the citizens of Stratford on Avon (pop. 15,000) decided that Famous Son William Shakespeare was too much with them these days. To satisfy their complaints, the town council voted to spend up to $560 a week to bring ordinary vaudeville shows to a local music hall...
...grand tour." Stops in 21 cities of "eleven nations, including Scandinavia and the Low Countries, with three days in London, three in Rome and four in Paris. Price: $1,388.10. ¶ Pan American: A "ten-day special." Four days in England, including London, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle; four days in Paris, including a trip to Versailles. Price: $617. ¶ Sabena: Two weeks in Belgium, Holland, England and France, including a motor trip through Holland, excursions to Windsor Castle and Versailles. Price: $642. ¶ Scandinavian: A 23-day tour taking in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lucerne, Interlaken...
...AMOS BELDEN Avon...
Gamble on Talent. But medicine was only a part of the foundation's interests. It helped finance the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon,,gave nearly $2,000,000 for a new site for the University of London. It contributed to Columbia's Institute for Russian Studies, sent money to Physicist Niels Bohr for his Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen...