Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers that the President did not take Elmer Davis to Cairo and Teheran. In fact, Davis wasn't even invited to Quebec...
...broadcasting stations chiefly heard, Arabs listened most (in this order) to: Cairo, London, Jerusalem, Beirut, Sharq-el-Adna, Damascus, New York, Moscow. New York is static-bound (in summer) and in a poor position on the Arab's time schedule. Not enough Arabs know Russian to give Radio Moscow a good score...
...world news, London is more popular than its three nearest competitors (Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut) combined. It can also be heard more clearly than any but local stations. London made top score for the station which gives "the freshest news, and up to one-third of the listeners said that their own local stations had the stalest news...
Drombrowski shot through a quick opening at right tackle, sped 30 yards to the R.A.F. 15. Two tacklers waited for him. Drombrowski lateraled to Harbert, blocked the astonished Britons, watched his teammate score again. Twelve times such razzle-dazzle plays clicked for touchdowns. Final score at Cairo's Gezira Club: U.S. Army "Rebels," 79; R.A.F...
...sport's fame has spread to other theaters. The R.A.F. sent an officer from Italy to Cairo to borrow equipment. South African girls stationed in Cairo talked U.S. Sergeant Walter Dzilinski into coaching them, challenged U.S. nurses at softball, licked them 7-3. (The nurses promptly blacklisted Dzilinski, demanded two return games, won both.) The Army's sports program in the Middle East ranges from ping-pong (in place of tennis) to basketball. Many camps have lighted, wooden courts. Boxing is one of the most popular sports. Licked last year by the British, U.S. boxers are now training...