Word: round-the-world
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Cornelius V. Starr, a 50-year-old, California-born businessman took a 'round-the-world tour in 1919. His first and last stop was Shanghai. He opened a small insurance business there, by 1941 had offices on several continents...
Gardner Cowles, Jr. '25, assistant to Elmer Davis in the Office of War Information and only newsman to accompany Wendell Willkie on his recent round-the-world crusade, will speak at a meeting of New England Exeter alumni at the Boston City Club...
Clyde Pangborn, famed 'round-the-world flyer of 1931, now an RAFerryman, was sued in Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife...
...diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate and industries. His financial affairs got into a tangled mess in the early '30s, receivers were appointed, and he lost most of his power...
Died. Louis D. Beaumont, 85, cofounder of the May Department Stores chain; in Manhattan. He retired 30 years ago, spent most of his time on the French Riviera and in Paris. He organized and financed one of the first round-the-world flights, set up the Wilbur Wright monument at Le Mans...