Carl B. Allen at Press Conference on National Defense, Washington, D. C.
Date:
1951
Description:
C. B. Allen is seated on the far left. He reported military and Veterans Administration news as a member of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune from 1946 until 1953. Major General William H. Tunner is conducting the briefing.
Carl B. Allen at work during the inaugural trans-Pacific passenger flight of Pan American World Airways from San Francisco to Manila. At the time Allen worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune.
Text on the back reads, "Ready to go aboard the Sikorsky 'Sky Pullman' Yorktown on a sight-seeing flight over New York City. Misses Jean Roy, Noel Pridgeon and Katherine McCoy with a World reporter "top off" the summer session at Columbia in a modern manner." C. B. Allen is pictured with the students.
C. B. Allen and nine other reporters in the interior of the Sikorsky Aerial Pullman "Yorktown," piloted by Chas G. Collyer. C. B. Allen is pictured in the rear, fifth from the left.