Word: round-the-world
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Next, the small but pivotal Liberal Party named the Rev. James H. Robinson, 46, a popular Presbyterian pastor whose round-the-world trip in 1951 as a missionary ambassador at large (TIME, April 28, 1952) had a highly effective, if unofficial, propaganda value for the U.S. This left the Tammany Democrats out on a limb with a non-Negro candidate. Assemblyman Herman Katz of Manhattan. After some hurried conferences, Katz withdrew...
...number of students offers some testimony to the size of Richards' radio audience. Currently, 1,500,000 are enrolled-500,000 more than the Adventists' total world membership. Still, Evangelist Richards and his staff are not content. He and the King's Heralds plan a round-the-world campaign this summer, with the emphasis on Africa. A fortnight ago, the Voice hooked up with seven radio stations in Japan. Says Adventist Richards, who cheerfully runs his $1,000,000 operation on a salary of $65 a week: "Brother, you just wait. We'll keep on growing...
...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg, on a round-the-world inspection tour, touched down at a Korean airstrip, called for Marine Pfc. Nicholas Baldwin and handed him a big box of cookies. The general had met the marine's parents in Florence, Italy, and volunteered to play messenger. The marine's reaction: "I was plenty shook...
Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross...
...lights up the TV screen like rhinestone jewelry. Last week hardworking Parks added Double or Nothing (Mon., Wed., Fri., 2 p.m., CBS-TV) to the list of giveaway shows (Stop the Music, Break the Bank) on which he has given away yachts, swimming pools, mink coats, scholarships and round-the-world cruises with all the abandon of a politician passing out cigars...