Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
...urge to travel hit Parrish early. By the time he graduated from high school in his native Decatur, Ill., he had hitchhiked through all the Eastern and Southern states. He thumbed his way to New York to study at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he won a Pulitzer fellowship that gave him a year of third-class travel from the Arctic Circle to Spanish Morocco...
...love to move.'' says Parrish. "In New York I set out to walk up and down every avenue and across every side street in Manhattan. I never finished, but I covered a good deal of it. I also set out to travel every mile of the subway, but I never finished that either. But I have traveled in every state in the U.S. and visited every state capital.'' Parrish's current goal is to land at every U.S. airport served by a scheduled airline. His score: 505, with...
Passport Problem. As a professional newsman. Parrish was fired from three jobs, "and never was happy until I became my own boss." The New York Herald 'Tribune's City Editor Stanley
Walker fired him in 1933 after four years of reporting because Parrish ducked a dull assignment. In 1935 an economy wave washed him off the staff of the Literary Digest. Then he got a job as editor of National Aeronautics, even though "I knew nothing about magazines and nothing about aviation." In 1937 he lost that job when his boss got the word that he was dickering with the magazine's printers to join him in starting a new magazine. Two and a half hours later he and the printers, E. J. Stackpole Jr. and A. H. Stackpole...