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...advertisements they adjoined. And 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...
...cinema resists rational criticism almost as firmly as a six-day bicycle race, or perhaps love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing...
...six-day trip across, William Lyon Mackenzie King was the only one of the Queen Mary's passengers to have a suite, although ex-U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Lady Portal were also aboard. As the Mary edged up to Southampton Sunday noon, the Prime Minister (in pale grey suit, blue tie) gawped momentarily at a quayside thronged with cheering people, then noted that they were cheering British prisoners of war arriving simultaneously at an adjacent pier. The Prime Minister waved, and joined in the cheering...
...weeks before Pearl Harbor, John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers ended a six-day strike. Its aim: to extend the union shop to the captive mines owned by the big steel companies. But the dispute lingered on until John L. got a settlement to suit him. The date...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer...