WORKING THE GLOBE
ADVENTUROUS AMERICAN GIRL Six months ago, smiling, petite Dorothy Whittenberger, graduated from college in America. She was 20, had just £4O. And this blue-eyed daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer said: “I’m going to work my way around the world." Recently she was in London after travelling 9000 miles and cramming those six months with colour and excitement—all on that £4O, “ I have covered most of the United States, down and around the West Indies and on to London. I have paid for every passage and have worked as librarian, farmhand, journalist and nursemaid,” she (old a Sunday Chronicle reporter. If Dorothy wanted thrills, she certainly found them. She has been lost in a West Indies jungle, stoned by natives who thought her camera a “ devil box,” and was stranded off Guadalup- : n a 15-ton ketch with two f nicstricken black boys as companions.
“My next move is to Paris,’’ she said, “ but in the meantime I am jobhunting—to earn my fare and continue my tr. /els.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23223, 22 June 1937, Page 3
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