Word: globe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this firm keynote, 329 bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion reported last week on the results of the eighth Lambeth Conference.* On Oct. 10 their encyclical letter will be read to congregations around the globe in a hundred languages. Lambeth's proceedings do not bind the communion's 20,000,000 members. But as the London Times observed: "This solid body of coherent theological doctrine . . . must be regarded ... as a formidable fact in world thought and opinion...
...Raymond Loewy once said: "I dream all the time. It's the only way to keep awake." Last week he got a dream-job: all the designing (from soap wrappers to retail stores) for one of the world's great industrial empires, Britain's 500-company, globe-girdling Unilever...
...under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World in 80 Clichés," Westward Ha! is both a juicy parody of the average globe-trotter prose and a ferret's-eye view of the international scene...
...Robert R. Young juggled his high command. To run the coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio while President Robert J. Bowman is on sick leave, the board named a coalman, Walter J. Tuohy, 47, as first vice president. A graduate of De Paul University, Tuohy was boss of Chicago's Globe Coal Co. when he joined the C. & O. in 1943 as vice president in charge of coal operations. Still unfilled was the vacancy left by Financial Vice President William H. Wenneman, who resigned because "too many [C. & O.] activities have been undertaken for the sole purpose of attracting public attention...
Weller, a Nieman Fellow during the past year, has covered the globe as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and other publications since his tenure as CRIMSON editorial chairman in 1929. In 1943 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his story of an appendectomy performed under enemy waters by an American submarine doctor...