Word: radioman
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...remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...
Married. Warrant Officer George Ray Tweed, 43, Navy radioman who played Robinson Crusoe for two and a half years as a fugitive on Jap-held Guam; and Dolores Kramer, 29. War Department employe; she for the first time, he for the second (he filed suit for divorce from his first wife nine days after his return); in Washington...
...Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
...Every man stayed on his battle station. If one was killed, a radioman or pharmacist's mate would take his place...
After listening to the President last week, one Washington radioman said admiringly: "Thank God, he doesn't have sibilants-he handles his s's like a master." With more Reinsching, a somewhat less poky delivery and his present fine clarity, Harry Truman might well master the monster...