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...uniqueness when, after an anonymous six-week tryout, WQXR's new 9-to-9:15 evening news roundup was identified as the TIME and LIFE Worldwide News Review. The news is written by a small, special TIME Inc. staff from dispatches supplied by the 203 far-flung correspondents of the TIME Inc. News Bureau. It was the first time that a publishers' news service had provided its own regular full-length radio news program. The Worldwide News Review is not voiced by a built-up personality but simply by a spokesman-representative of the service...
...outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized for the record on such far-flung subjects as education of youth, property rights v. the human rights of men in the draft, social progress as demonstrated by the funnies and society pages. By noon of the second day Farish had reached page five...
...army in Egypt are flowing through rebuilt quays and warehouses. Mechanized equipment, shot up and damaged in the desert war, are repaired there. The U.S. Army's Major General Russell Maxwell, closemouthed commander of the base which has become one of the most vital in a far-flung chain of United Nations supply depots, admits that the base at Massaua, little-publicized service entrance to Egypt and the Middle East, is in operation...
...President, like the people, is in trouble. His desk is piled high with unsolved problems. There is the threat of inflation, the lag in production, the lack of unity in his Army & Navy-to say nothing of far-flung problems of democratic unity throughout the world...
Reaching out among the far-flung Harvard alumni, war has been brought a step closer to home recently as the Alumni Bulletin announced that F. Holbrook Mahn '38 has been rescued after a week afloat at sea, and Arthur L. Derby '39 is reported missing in action in the Philippines...