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Acheson, Dean

Afghanistan

airplanes and air travel

around-the-world fliers

and broadcast media

wartime

Alameda (steamship)

Alaska

Aldington, Richard

Allen, Doris

Allen, Dorothy

Allenby, Edmund

Amanullah Khan

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

American Newsreel

American Society of Newspaper Editors

American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)

Amos ’n’ Andy (radio program)

anti-Semitism

Aqaba, Jordan

Arab Revolt

Arabia

Armour and Company

Arnold, Henry (Hap)

Asia (magazine)

Australia

Bakal, Sid

Batchelor, Dan C.

Beach, Rex

Bennett, James Gordon, Sr.

Beranger, George

Bernstein, Burton

Berton, Joseph A.

Birth of a Nation (film)

Blan, Louis B.

Bohemian Club

Bolt, Robert

Brokaw, Tom

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchenwald concentration camp

Buddhism. See also Dalai Lama

Buffett, Warren

Buranelli, Prosper

Burke, Edmund W.

Burton, Percy

Bush, Barbara

Bush, George H. W.

Butler, Smedley D.

Capital Cities Television Corporation

Carnagey (Carnegie), Dale

Carnegie Hall

Carpenter, Cliff

Carter, Boake

Chamberlain, Paul

Chaplin, Charlie

Chase, Emma

Chase, Harry A.

in Australia, New Zealand and Afghanistan

as cameraman, editor and projectionist

in Europe

final years and death of

in India

and Lawrence

in Middle East

Chenery, William L.

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago, Illinois

journalism

Chicago Daily Journal (newspaper)

Chicago Tribune (newspaper)

China

Churchill, Winston

cinéma vérité

Cinerama

Clark, George Rogers

Clemenceau, George

Clover Brook Farm (Quaker Hill)

Collier’s Weekly (magazine)

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Literary Digest Topics in Brief

Lowell Thomas with/and the News

See It Now

WROW-TV

Communism

Coolidge, Calvin

Cour, Gene

Coward, Noel

Crawford, Fred D.

Creel, George

“Cremation of Sam McGee, The” (Service)

Cripple Creek, Colorado

Cripple Creek Times (newspaper)

Crissey, Paul

Cronkite, Walter

Crowther, Bosley

Cuddihy, R. J.

Daily Mail (newspaper)

Daily Telegraph (newspaper)

Dalai Lama

13th Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama

Damascus, Syria

Darrow, Clarence

Das Kapital (Marx)

Davis, Richard Harding

Dawson City, Yukon

De Laurentiis, Dino

Delco

Dempsey, Jack

Denver Times (newspaper)

Denver University

Dewey, Thomas E.

Dickens, Charles

Dickler, Gerald

Dillinger, John

Donaghy, Anne Thomas (Lowell Jr.’s daughter)

Doolittle, Jimmy

Doubleday (publishing company)

Doubleday, F. N.

Douglas, Kirk

Doyle, Conan

Dulles, Allen

Dulles, John Foster

Dyea, Alaska

Ebert, Friedrich

Edward VIII

Edwards, Douglas

Edwards, Ralph

Egypt

Eisner, Kurt

elephant rides

Ellis, Kimpton

Elmendorf, Dwight

Explorers Club

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.

Fairchild Publications

Farnsworth, Philo

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Feisal I bin Hussein

Finnegan, Richard J. (Dick)

Flaherty, Robert

Flynn, Errol

Ford, Gerald

Forster, E. M.

“Four Freedoms” (FDR)

Fox, Reginald

Fox, William

Fox Movietone News

Franco, Francisco

Franklin, Ben

Freemasonry

French, Fred F., estate of

Freud, Sigmund

Friendly, Fred W.

Front Page, The (play)

Gable, Clark

General Motors

George V

Gibbons, Floyd

Goddard, Henry Herbert

gold mining

in Colorado

Klondike gold rush

mining strikes

Goldenson, Leonard

golf

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Gould, Jack

Graves, Robert

Great Alaska Earthquake

Great Depression

Greaves, Adrian

Griffith, D. W.

Gross, Ben

Gross, Perry Edward

Guerin, Sam

Guggenheim, Daniel

Hancock, George

Hearst, William Randolph

Hecht, Ben

Henderson, Loy

Henson, Matthew A.

Hersey, John

Hewitt, Don

Heyder, Augusta

Hibbard, George W.

Hibben, John G.

Hickok, Wild Bill

Hilton, James

Hitler, Adolf

Hogate, K. C.

Holmes, Burton

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Homer

Hoover, Herbert

Houghton Mifflin Company

How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)

Howey, Walter

Hudson Betts, Carleton

Hudson Valley Broadcasting

Hussein, King of Jordan

Hussein bin Ali

Hutchens, Martin J.

India

Javits, Jacob

Jazz Singer, The (film)

Jerusalem

Johnson, Clay

Johnson, Lyndon

Jolson, Al

Joseph and His Brethren (Handel)

journalism

and accuracy

audience size

Chicago

“Code of Ethics or Canons of Journalism”

and competition

and fabrication

newscasts, first network

“golden age” of

international

investigative

and legacy of Thomas

and McCarthyism

muckraking

national

nonpartisan

reporting

and technology

television, first newscasts

and trust

where-to-get-the-news problem

yellow journalism

Kaltenborn, H. V.

Keith, Claire

Kelley, William V.

Kennedy, Arthur

Kennedy, John F.

King, Clifford C.

Kipling, Rudyard

Kitchener, Lord

Korda, Alexander

Korda, Michael

Korean War

Kraft, Karl

Krickenbarger, Harold, Sr.

Krickenbarger, Marianna Munn. See Thomas, Marianna Munn Krickenbarger

Lamont, Ted

Lampart, Nelson

Lane, Franklin K.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Lankler, Ralph Conover

Lansing, Robert

Lardner, John

Lawrence, T. E.

and Arab Revolt

biographies of

birth and early years of

death of

education of

physical description of

Revolt in the Desert (memoir)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (book)

Thomas and

Thomas’s magazine articles on

With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (Thomas’s travelogue)

With Lawrence in Arabia (Thomas’s book)

Lawrence in Arabia (Anderson)

Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawson, John Howard

Lean, David

Lee, Mabel Barbee

Leister, Max

Leslie’s Weekly (news magazine)

Liddell Hart, Basil

Life (magazine)

Lilley, James

Lindbergh, Charles

Lippmann, Walter

Literary Digest (magazine)

Literary Digest Prohibition Poll (radio program)

Literary Digest Topics in Brief (radio program)

Lloyd George, David

London, Jack

Lost Horizon (Hilton)

Lowell Thomas Museum (Victor, Colorado)

Luckner, Felix von

Luxemburg, Rosa

MacArthur, Charles

Mack, John E.

Mailer, Norman

Mallon, Dan

Mao Zedong

Marconi, Guglielmo

Marx, Karl

Marxism. See also Communism

Max von Baden

Mary of Teck, Queen

Massey, W. T.

McCarthy, Joseph R.

McClure, S. S.

McClure’s Magazine

McCord, Jack

McIntyre, Marvin

McKinley, William

Mencken, H. L.

Mills, Enos

Minneapolis Tribune (newspaper)

Mitchel, John Purroy

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

Moritz-Rabson, Daniel

Morrison, James

Moulton, Richard

Mousa, Suleimann

Movietone. See also Fox Movietone News

Murphy, Charles E.

Murphy, Thomas

Murrow, Edward R.

Mussolini, Benito

Nanook of the North (documentary)

narration

in motion-picture newsreels

in travelogues and expedition films

Nash, Ogden

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Blue Network

Red Network

W2XBS

WNBT

National Parks

New Deal

New York Times (newspaper)

on Buchenwald concentration camp

Cinerama review

Harriet Thomas obituary

on Lowell Thomas

Lowell Thomas obituary

on Pew

Prosper Buranelli obituary

and radio news program listings

New Yorker (magazine)

Newman, E. M.

Nicks, Electra Ward

Nicks, Gene

Nixon, Richard

North Pole expedition

Oakley, Annie

Oliver, Gertrude

O’Toole, Peter

Palestine

Paley, William

Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Pathé

Pawling, New York. See Quaker Hill

Payne-Townshend, Charlotte Frances

Peale, Norman Vincent

Peary, Robert E.

Pegler, Westbrook

Pennybacker, Ruth

Peterson, Jennifer Lynn

Pew, J. Howard

Pew, Joseph Newton, Jr.

Pew family

Pike’s Peak

Plutarch

Power of Positive Thinking, The (Peale)

Press-Radio Bureau

Procter & Gamble

Prohibition

Pryor, Mary Taylor. See Thomas, Mary “Tay” Pryor

Pryor, Samuel F., Jr.

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pulitzer Prize

Pyle, Ernie

Quaker Hill (Pawling, New York).

radio

early news efforts

first network newscast

reporting for

Radio Act of 1927

railroads and rail travel

Reed, N. H.

Reeves, Hazard

Richardson, Hugh E.

Rickenbacker, Eddie

Riley, James Whitcomb

Roberson, Frank R.

Roberts, John

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin

Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Roosevelt, Theodore, III

Royal Albert Hall (London)

Royal Opera House (London)

Russell, William Howard

Ruth, Babe

Ryan, Eunice

Ryan, Frances. See Thomas, Frances Ryan (Lowell’s wife)

Salkeld, Elizabeth (Betty)

Salkeld, Joseph D.

Sarazen, Gene

Schechter, Abe A.

Schell, Orville

Seattle, Washington

Service, Robert W.

Sevareid, Eric

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence)

Shakabpa, Tsepon W. D.

Shaw, George Bernard

Shepard, Richard F.

Sherwin, Louis

Shultz, Tom

Skagway, Alaska

skiing

Smith, Clement Lawrence

Smith, Frank

Smith, Richard Norton

Smith, Ross

Snead, Sam

softball

space program

Spellman, Francis

Spiegel, Sam

Standard Oil Company

Stanton, Frank

Stark, Freya

Steffens, Lincoln

Strand Magazine

Strauss, Lewis

Strawn, Silas

Sun Oil Company

Swift and Company

Symington, Stuart

Taft, Horace Dutton

Taft, Robert A.

Taft, William Howard

Taku Glacier

Tarbell, Ida

technology

air travel

automobiles

Cinerama

communication and journalism

newsreels

radio

rail travel

remote broadcasting

steamships

television

typewriters

television

first newscasts

High Adventure with Lowell Thomas

This Is Your Life, Thomas appearance

Tennyson, Alfred

Thalhammer, Christl

Thalhammer, Hilde

Thalhammer, Kurt

Thomas. Anne. See Donaghy, Anne Thomas (Lowell Jr.’s daughter)

Thomas, Carl (Lowell’s brother)

Thomas, David Lowell (Lowell Jr.’s son)

Thomas, Frances Ryan (Lowell’s wife)

birth of Lowell Jr.

courtship of

death of

diaries of

on Eleanor Roosevelt

entertaining of

final years of

health of

on Lowell

marriage of

meeting of Thomas at Denver University

move to Hampshire House (Central Park South)

move to Quaker Hill

move to the Waldorf Hotel

and parenting

as pianist

travel to Australia

travel to Bahamas

travel to Europe

travel to India

Thomas, Harriet Wagner (Lowell’s mother)

ambitions of

birth of Lowell

death of

on Lowell

and parenting

religion of

travels of

Thomas, Harry George (Lowell’s father)

at American University in Beirut

birth of Lowell

Century Club established by

death of

early married years of

education and early career of

financial difficulties of

on Lowell

medical profession of

purchase of cattle ranch

religion of

struggle with depression of

temperament of

travels of

visit to Princeton

in World War I

Thomas, Ira (Lowell’s uncle)

Thomas, Lowell

ancestors of

creation of Army Air Forces Convalescence Center

birth of

broken leg in Tibet

and Capital Cities Television Corporation

childhood years

at Clover Brook Farm (Quaker Hill)

death of

donation of Hammersley Hill mansion to Denver University

editor of Victor Record

education of

entrepreneurism of

extroversion of

faculty member at Princeton

fame of

final years

German excursion (post-WWI)

and golf

and “History of Civilization Fireplace”

host of High Adventure with Lowell Thomas

host of Literary Digest Topics in Brief

host of Lowell Thomas with/and the News

host of The World of Lowell Thomas

and Hudson Betts exposé

marriage to Fran

marriage to Marianna

and Morton story

move to Hampshire House (Central Park South)

move to Quaker Hill

move to the Waldorf Hotel

move to Wimbledon Common

narrator of motion-picture newsreels

narrator of travelogues and expedition films

and parenting

personality of

physical description of

and politics

purchase of television station

and religion and culture

report of being shot in Germany

reporter for Chicago Daily Journal

reporter for Denver Times

reporter for Rocky Mountain News

reporter for Victor Daily News

reporter for Victor Record

and skiing

“So long until tomorrow,” sendoff line of

and softball

student at Chicago-Kent School of Law

student at Denver University

student at Princeton

student at Valparaiso University

teacher at Brooklyn College of Law

This Is Your Life appearance

voice of

at W2XBS

YMCA lectures

as war correspondent (WWI)

as war reporter (WWII)

Thomas, Lowell: travels

Afghanistan

Alaska

Antarctica

Arabia

around the world

Australia and New Zealand

Europe

Germany, after World War I

India

Middle East

New Guinea

Tibet

West Coast

Yukon

Thomas, Lowell: works

“Alaska: Uncle Sam’s Polar Paradise” (lecture)

Beyond Khyber Pass (book)

Blonde Speaks, The (documentary screenplay)

Count Luckner, the Sea Devil (book)

European Skyways (book)

Famous First Flights That Changed History (book, with Lowell Jr.)

First World Flight, The (book)

Good Evening Everybody (memoir)

Hero of Vincennes, The (book)

India: Land of the Black Pagoda (book)

Kabluk of the Eskimo (book)

Lauterbach of the China Sea (book)

Mussolini Speaks (documentary screenplay)

Raiders of the Deep (book)

Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Ra (book)

Sea Devil’s Foc’s’le, The (book)

Search for Paradise (Cinerama film)

Seven Wonders of the World (Cinerama film)

So Long Until Tomorrow (memoir)

Tall Stories (book)

This Is Cinerama (Cinerama film)

This Side of Hell: Dan Edwards, Adventurer (book)

Through Romantic India (travelogue)

“Typical Development at Mount Rainier” (lecture)

With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (travelogue)

With Lawrence in Arabia (book)

Woodfill of the Regulars (book)

Wreck of the Dumaru, The (book)

Thomas, Lowell, Jr. (Sonny)

in Alaska

birth of

early years

education of

enlistment in Army Air Forces

Famous First Flights That Changed History (with Lowell Sr.)

and Lowell Sr., funeral

and Lowell Sr.’s marriage to Marianna

marriage to Tay

military travels

Our Flight to Adventure (book with Tay)

Out of This World (book)

political career and controversy

travel to Tibet with Lowell Sr.

Thomas, Marianna Munn Krickenbarger

Thomas, Mary “Tay” Pryor

Thomas, Norman

Thomas, Pherbia (Lowell’s sister)

Thomas Travelogues Inc.

Thompson, Dorothy

Thornburg, Raymond (Pinky)

Tibet

Out of This World (book)

Out of This World (film)

Thomases in

Todd, Mike

Tolstoy, Ilya Andreyevich

Townsend, Dallas

travelogues

and Burton Holmes

and Cinerama

clichés of

as “expedition films”

and Frank R. Roberson

wartime

See also Thomas, Lowell: works; Thomas Travelogues Inc.

Truman, Harry

Trumbo, Dalton

Tugwell, Rexford G.

Tunney, Gene

Twentieth Century-Fox. See also Fox Movietone News

Ulysses

Valentino, Rudolph

Valparaiso University

Victor, Colorado

Victor Daily News (newspaper)

Victor Record (newspaper)

Vietnam War

Vinacke, Harold “Nook”

“Voice of God”

Waldron, Webb

Waller, Fred

war correspondents

Washington, George

Washington Post (newspaper)

Wayne, John

White, Paul W.

White Pass and Yukon Route railroad

White Pass Trail

Whitehorse, Yukon

Wilhelm II

William, Prince of Sweden

Wilson, Jeremy

Wilson, Michael

Wilson, Woodrow

Winchell, Walter

Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt)

Wolfe, Tom

World War I

Arab Revolt

capture of Aqaba

capture of Damascus

capture of Jerusalem

sinking of Lusitania

Thomas as war correspondent

U.S. declaration of war

World War II

Battle of the Bulge

Berlin burning

bombing of Hiroshima

Holocaust

Lowell’s reporting on

Pearl Harbor attack

U.S. declaration of war

Wright brothers

Yard, Robert Sterling

Yost, Casper S.

Zalewski, Ruth