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...soldiers stationed in New Zealand have observed this unique procedure with considerable interest. The U.S. has.nothing like it. Nearest thing to it was Manhattan station WNYC's broadcasts of the proceedings of the City Council for two years (1938-40). That was such a farcical success that council members eventually caught on and voted themselves off the air. To U.S. citizens at home or abroad, the thought of a microphone in the halls of Congress has decidedly interesting possibilities...
These artless British queries were inspired by the presence of thousands of U.S. fighting men in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand. OWI undertakes to answer such questions in a weekly radio program called Answering You. In England the program has risen to fourth place on BBC's "inspirational" list, with an estimated audience...
...once, energetic Eleanor Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
...Shaws traveled. Around the world she dodged reporters, lost herself in crowds, collected clippings about her husband. Afterwards she told a reporter: "When I get really old I should like to live in New Zealand. It's a perfect country where the people have no art at all and therefore no artistic inhibitions...
...forthright, energetic, middle-aged lady and she was more exciting than anything the antipodes had seen in many a down-under moon. Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the U.S., leaving New Zealand breathless and charmed by her energetic gusto, flew on to Australia...