Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph F. Dinneen a reporter on the Boston Globe and author of "Ward Eight" and the articles "Murder in Massachusetts" and "The Kingfish of Massachusetts," which recently appeared in Harpers Magazine, will be the guest of honor at the weekly House Dinner on Monday. After dinner he will take in the Upper Commen Room on "A Realistic Approach to Local Politics". Outside guests are welcome to the speech...
Henry N. Lamar, coach of boxing, will write a series of articles on the training and instruction of boxers for the Boston Globe in connection with the New England Golden Gloves Tournament, which it is staging. There will be six articles altogether in the series...
...Kieran [TIME, Oct. 26] set out to circumnavigate the globe for The New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance, using only those means of transportation available to ordinary tourists. He timed his start so as to reach Manila to catch the first West to East passenger flight of the Pan-American Clipper service. Mr. Kieran did not fly the South China Sea in a special plane as did Mr. Ekins, nor did he fly the Pacific as a member of the crew before the line was opened for passenger service...
...from whatever Mr. Ekins did; he merely was not interested in it, any more than a man entered in a walking race would feel himself in competition with a runner who passed him on his course. Mr. Ekins is to be congratulated that he circled the globe in 18 days, 14 hr. and 56 min. Mr. Kieran holds the distinction, for whatever it may be worth, of having circled the globe in the shortest time using only the facilities of established passenger service...
Fredric March plays the moody, restive adventurer with admirable restraint and vigor, and Olivia de Havilland gives a vivid likeness of the passionate and equally vacillatory heroine. The ponderous weight of the thing is distinctly felt at the occasional points where Anthony becomes a prosaic globe trotter, but his genius for running into adversity usually lends the needed romance...