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Leopold, exiled King of the Belgians, prepared to sail from Lisbon for Cuba as the Belgian Parliament approached the task of deciding whether to take him back or not. He let it be known that he was just taking a little vacation. He might just possibly look...
...savings and advantages, a refueled Tudor V (British South American Airways Ltd.) could take off from Lisbon with 44 instead of the present 26 passengers, and only 800 gallons of gasoline. In the air it could get more gasoline from a tanker and fly toward Dakar, where another tanker would give it enough fuel to fly on to Natal. The airline could collect 18 extra fares and scrap its expensive Dakar base (passengers would be spared the yellow-fever shots required for a stop at Dakar...
...22nd postwar trip to Mexico-this time as president of its first transatlantic airline-Aerovias Guest, S.A. With capital supplied by Guest and his U.S. and Mexican friends, the line has bought one Constellation, hopes to buy two more. Aerovias Guest plans to fly passengers between Mexico City, Lisbon and Madrid (eventually also to Paris and London), via Miami, Bermuda and the Azores...
That kind of news item, and such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
...approach has been profitable: the Enterprise was down to 268 subscribers when Gould bought it in 1945. Boston-born and Maine-reared, he knew the town from childhood summers on his grandfather's farm on nearby Lisbon Ridge. When he grew up he bought the farm, worked as an all-round newsman on the Brunswick Record. When its publisher died, a banker friend suggested that he take over the Lisbon weekly. Gould proposed a partnership to Printer J. W. ("Jess") Goud (rhymes with food), who seemed, after the Maine fashion, completely uninterested. Next morning Goud showed up with...