Once Around

摘要

This October marks the 75th anniversary of a globe-circling race not unlike the ones on today's reality TV shows. In 1936, three New York journalists set out to travel around the world using "established means" of transportation available to anyone who could afford the ticket. The point of the contest was to demonstrate that air travel was accessible to all and was rapidly shrinking the world—and to pump up newsstand sales. Leo Kieran was a reporter for the New York Times, and Herbert R. Ekins wrote for the World-Telegram At the last minute, they were joined by Dorothy Kilgallen of the Evening Journal a 23-year-old novice crime reporter with a couple of semesters of college and a pedigree: She was the daughter of James Kilgallen, a veteran Hearst writer.