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TIME credited the World-Telegram's world-girdling Reporter Ekins with no victory, no record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
...Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram which he said was from Harry Bridges, warning that an Atlantic strike would only delay matters. "Fake! Boo!" yelled the men. "We want Curran!" Insurgent Curran had been barred admission, was waiting outside. Called in, he won a unanimous strike vote, declared that every U. S. Atlantic port would be tied...
...GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS TELEGRAM AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT ALL OF US AMERICANS WILL NOW PULL TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD. I SEND YOU EVERY GOOD WISH...
...guests had gone and Alf Landon went up to bed. He had told reporters he would have no statement until morning. About midnight, however, Ross Bartley, the Landon publicity man, appeared at the Jayhawk Hotel to hand out copies of the Republican Nominee's telegram of congratulations to Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Already in the Jayhawk they were discussing Alf Landon's chances of getting elected U. S. Senator in 1938, the job his friends really had in mind for him when they began booming him for the Presidency year...
...columnist who knew the answer to this was the New York World-Telegram's sharp Westbrook Pegler. "They do have their laws in England," he wrote, "but if a story is big enough an English paper can go ahead and print it-and get away with it, as the late Lord Northcliffe proved in his historic expose of the shell shortage in the early days of the World War. Under the Defense of the Realm Act, Northcliffe could have been locked up in the Tower and hanged...