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unusual facts about Lowell Thomas, Jr.



Africa Speaks!

Africa Speaks! is a 1930 American documentary film directed by Walter Futter and narrated by Lowell Thomas.

Bill S. Ballinger

Working in radio and advertising in the early 1940s, Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts and produced The Dinah Shore Show, The Breakfast Club, and Lowell Thomas broadcasts.

Carol Beckwith

2010: Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club honoring men and women who have distinguished themselves in the field of exploration

Together they have received numerous accolades, including the United Nations Award for Excellence, the Royal Geographical Society’s Cherry Kearton Medal, two Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Award, and the WINGS WorldQuest Lifetime Achievement Award.

Charles E. Ford

Among his newsreels were the series Going Places With Lowell Thomas (1934–1937), Stranger Than Fiction (1934–1941) and another news series Going Places With Graham McNamee (1939–1940) featuring radio broadcaster Graham McNamee as reporter.

Lowell Thomas, Jr.

(born October 6, 1923) is a film and television producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan State Senator in the early 1970s, and later the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974–1978).

Marie Doro

Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that “her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty rôles.”

Maupiha'a

In Lowell Thomas' 1928 book on von Luckner he reports that the loss of Seeadler was the consequence of a tsunami.

Tex O'Reilly

He wrote an autobiography - Roving and Fighting, and Lowell Thomas wrote Born to Raise Hell about him.

Willie Stark

The original production was dedicated to the American radio journalist Lowell Thomas.


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