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Died. Arthur Prince, 66, British ventriloquist, round-the-world trouper for 43 years; of a liver ailment; in London. He asked that his bluejacketed dummy, "Sailor Jim," be buried with...
...make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began paying them good prices. Last fall he sent Richard (Guadalcanal Diary) Tregaskis off to write a round-the-world diary (at $2,000 an entry, plus expenses) for True. "For stories we really want," says Williams, "we'll outbid anybody, even the Saturday Evening Post...
Prospect. Among the other additions would be three large ships for the New York-Mediterranean route, and five round-the-world cruisers. The committee urged that the Government start the program with a flat 50% subsidy of all costs, estimated at some $500 million...
Another explanation is in Edgar Baker's account of his round-the-world flight (48,000 miles) as manager of TIME-LIFE International's overseas editions, in which he covered 15,000 miles by air within the borders of India alone. The rest is a multiplication of these news and business activities at home in the U.S. and overseas-plus the convenience of air travel for getting our editors away frequently to see the rest of the world they write about, and getting correspondents home for personal consultation on critical issues in the news...
Odom got home at 1:58 p.m. Sunday. He had flown 19,645 miles (4,049 miles farther than Post) in 73 hours 5 minutes (113 hours, 44 minutes less than Post). His time was also five hours 50 minutes faster than the previous round-the-world speed record, which he had set in April in the same plane, over virtually the same course, accompanied by a flight engineer and Penmaker Reynolds...