Word: wichitas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slick-paper magazine, America Illustrated, which is printed in Russian and sold in Russia for 15 rubles (90 cents). Of the first issue. 20,000 copies were distributed; OWI got glowing reports from Vladivostok, Murmansk and Tiflis. Last week it got reports, not so glowing, from Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas...
Omaha and Wichita were sizzling over an article in the magazine entitled "Profile of America," which had somehow reached the Midwest in translation. Describing the prairie land, it said: "The people in it are almost exclusively farmers. . . . Industry is almost nonexistent. Raw materials and fabricated goods must be imported from other states. . . . The climate of the region is very dry and it sometimes happens that a drought lasts for ten years...
...Wichita, an airplane-manufacturing center, the Chamber of Commerce also saw red. Kansas' Representative Cliff Hope complained bitterly to OWI's Elmer Davis about his "presumably high-priced author." Said Hope: a fifth-grader would know better...
...article was badly done (by a White Russian writer he refused to name) and "presented an unfair and inaccurate picture." Then he set about correcting the mistake. For use in the Russian schools, OWI prepared a map of the U.S. showing the vast resources of the prairie states (with Wichita plainly marked as an airplane-manufacturing center). In a forthcoming issue of America Illustrated there would be a new article on the Midwest-by a new author. The writer of the offending paragraphs had been fired...
Born. To David Rubinoff, 47, schmaltz king of the fiddle, now on a concert and bond-selling tour of U.S. schools; and his second wife, Mertice Dean Rubinoff, 30; their first (his second) child, a son; in Wichita Falls, Tex. Name: Ruben. Weight...