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Given a month's leave, he tried in Cairo to bum a ride to the U.S. with William C. Bullitt aboard a bomber. Bullitt said there was no room. But not for nothing had Correspondent Allen been able to talk the British into letting him become the Fleet's first correspondent. He followed Bullitt in a commercial plane across Africa. The next two days and three nights Hitchhiker Allen rode in the empty bomb compartment of Bullitt's plane...
...Franklin Roosevelt's good friend & neighbor, Judge John Mack, became president (at $90,000 a year); globe-trotting ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Ralph Budd, Robert L. Stevens became board members...
Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...
...getting the answers, from the Near East's sheiks and emirs, its shahs and kings and plain people, Bullitt will have the advantage of his old newspaper training (Philadelphia Public Ledger), his knack for talking easily to new acquaintances, his enthusiasm for discovery...
Since the fall of France, Bullitt has been on the sidelines except for an occasional odd job for the President, an occasional speech to inflate a trial balloon. Now he has a job that is up his alley...