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When Pianist Claudio Arrau wound up his third U.S. tour and boarded a Pan American Clipper for Puerto Rico last week, he had made plenty of hay in a shining...
...about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours at a stretch, unable to talk and unable to look at anything but another bomb rack...
...Heifetz, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 6 sides). Fine first recording of a pulsing score. Lanky Composer Walton wrote it for Heifetz in 1939, but the composer, a British ambulance driver, never heard his work out loud until this recording was sent to England by Clipper...
...page facing this dispatch the Herald Tribune printed, as luck would have it, a picture of Minister to Bulgaria George H. Earle 3d and a dog arriving by clipper at LaGuardia Field...
...hours' flying time the Anzac Clipper, camouflaged for day flying and blacked out at night, clocked 4,350 statute miles last week, bringing U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles home in record time from the Rio de Janeiro Conference of American foreign ministers...