Word: round-the-world
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...nearest (though not very near) thing to a fine artist in the medium of U.S. radio is Norman Corwin. Few dramatists reach so wide an audience-a fact that last February helped him win the first Wendell Willkie One World Award: a round-the-world trip designed to dramatize, as did Willkie's, the adjacence of everywhere...
Bostonians, though in decreasing numbers, have attended Lowell lectures ever since the Institute was founded in 1839 by John Lowell (of The Lowells).* John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly. Ill and atrabilious, he began a round-the-world trip with all the comforts of home (items: a horse and a portrait painter). In Luxor, Egypt, he drew up his will; in Bombay, India, he died...
That all of them will return with converts is highly doubtful. Even if they do, there is still Russia, whose iron curtain reaches up to the stratosphere. Although Russian territory is smack in the middle of many proposed U.S. round-the-world routes. U.S.-Russian negotiations are at a standstill...
Norman Corwin, jack-of-all-radio, paused to set a few minds at ease as he flew off on a four-month round-the-world tour patterned on Wendell Willkie's 1942 flight. "Storm" indications between the U.S., Britain, and Russia, he announced, were "nothing serious." Armed with a recording device and set for interviews high & low, the winner of the "OneWorld" award (TIME, March 4) proposed to turn his trip to account by capturing "the ordinary qualities" of practically all kinds of people all over the world...
...like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...