Word: round-the-world
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...wife, annoyed at their staring, slung a glass of water in their faces. Webster, a gentle man, still colors up when he remembers it: "I had to control myself as hard as I ever did in my life, not to give her a piece of my mind." The round-the-world trip ended in New York, and Webster ended - in time - on that Parnassus of Midwestern newspaper men, the New York World. Webster, along with any number of employes and readers, still remembers the death of Pulitzer's World in 1931 as nothing short of tragic...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...
Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...
Into the White House last Week to report to Harry Truman, went three globetrotters. They had been given what no other civilians have got in this war; a free round-the-world trip in Army planes, with high priority to go when & where they pleased-on a jaunt that had nothing to do with winning...
...busy with a conference-eve 'round-the-world documentary, Memo to the Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...