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...without grave philosophical headshakings. It gathered scores of eminent scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic...
When Pan Am's Philippine Clipper arrived in Manila last week, on board were over 300 items of freight. On Pan Am's run from San Francisco to Singapore, with stopovers at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam and Manila, about 12,000 ton-miles of freight flow weekly. During the first seven months of this year, the Clipper carried over 270,000 ton-miles of freight, a 20% jump over...
...years ago Manila was 16 freight days from the U.S. The fact that it is now six freight days distant by Clipper has made a difference to every businessman in the Philippines. Clippered samples precede many a cabled order. The U.S. Navy uses the Clipper to take out extra submarine parts; the Army uses it for flying instruments, maps, charts. Movie audiences in Manila now see newsreels almost as soon as San Franciscans. Manila doctors Clipper X-ray films to U.S. specialists, who send their diagnoses back by cable. Human ashes go home by Clipper for U.S. burial. Last Christmas...
Like a railroad train in the '60s, each Clipper arrival is big news. In Manila, society weddings are timed to coincide with the arrival by Clipper of New York bridesmaids' gowns. A game at the Manila Polo Club was on schedule recently because a box of polo balls, delayed in shipment, was replaced by another brought by Clipper...
Myron Taylor alighted at Rome's airport late one afternoon, weary from a Clipper flight across the Atlantic, a long conference with Ambassador to France Admiral William Daniel Leahy in Barcelona, another exhausting flight to Rome...