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AMERICAN MOSAIC¹ -April 26, 2002: Museum Show About Women Spies / Re -creating Lindbergh's Famous
Flight / A Song About a Train

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HOST:
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC
—
VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.
(THEME)
This is Doug Johnson. On our program today we:
Explain a popular American song..
.
Tell about plans to re-create Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight ..
.
And learn about female spies throughout history.

Women Spies

HOST:

A military women’s memorial near Washington, D.C., has a new show that honors female intelligence officers.
The National Women’s History Museum organized the show called “Clandestine² Women: The Untold³ Stories
of Women in Espionage⁴.
”
It demonstrates the bravery of women who served their country by spying. Bob
Doughty⁵ tells us more.

ANNCR:

Until recently, few people had heard of Virginia Hall. But this American woman made a difference in many lives.
During World War Two, she helped rescue Allied⁶ servicemen trapped in areas occupied by Germany. Later she
organized local resistance fighters into teams that captured hundreds of German prisoners.

Virginia Hall did all this although she had a wooden leg. Her own leg had been removed
after a hunting accident.

Mizz Hall is one of a number of spies being honored at the Women in Military Service for
America Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. The show tells spy stories from early American
history to recent years.

African American singer Josephine Baker⁸ was another World War Two spy. She carried
orders and maps from the French Resistance into countries occupied by Germany. The
orders were written in disappearing ink on pages of her music.

Famous cooking expert Julia Child also helped in the World War Two effort. She helped
solve a problem for the United States Navy. Sharks had been swimming into American
bombs placed underwater. The bombs exploded before they could sink their targets
–

German U-boats. Julia Child created a substance that frightened sharks away from explosives.

Women also served as spies in America’s earlier history. General George Washington used information from a
spy known only as “Three-Hundred -Fifty-Five.
”
The number meant “lady”
in the secret language of
American Revolutionary War spies. Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the middle Eighteen-

Hundreds. After the Civil War began, this brave African American woman spied for the Union Army.

Visitors to the spy show can also see some of the tools the women used to spy. One is a small camera that was

Virginia Hall
receiving the
Distinguished⁹
Service Cross,
September 1945

used to secretly photograph documents. Another is a cloth head covering that was printed with secret maps.

Lindbergh Flight

HOST:

The grandson of world famous pilot Charles Lindbergh is planning to re -create his grandfather’s flight from
New York City to Paris, France, seventy-five years ago. He is flying a plane he calls the New Spirit of Saint¹⁰
Louis. Mary Tillotson has more.

ANNCR:

Thirty-six-year-old Erik Lindbergh plans to leave New York on May first. He expects to arrive in Paris after
twenty hours in the air. His grandfather flew the same distance in about thirty-three hours.

Charles Lindbergh left New York City in his Spirit of Saint Louis plane on May twentieth,
Nineteen-Twenty-Seven. He landed at Le Bourget Aerodrome on May twenty -first. He was
the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. He became famous
around the world.

Erik Lindbergh says he is making the same flight for several reasons. He wants to honor the
work and the memory of his grandfather on the anniversary of his famous flight. He also
wants to use the event to support the development of new treatments for the disease
rheumatoid arthritis¹¹.

Erik Lindbergh suffered from the disease for fifteen years. He says he always dreamed of making a flight like his
grandfather’s. But he was not sure he could do it because of his health. A new drug is responsible for his good
health today.

Erik Lindbergh also is making the flight to support the X Prize Foundation. He is vice⁷ president of the
foundation. It has offered ten-million dollars to the first private team to fly into space, return to Earth and do it
again within two weeks. The competition is similar to that of the Orteig Prize won by Charles Lindbergh for
making the flight from New York to Paris. The prize money was twenty-five -thousand dollars.

Erik Lindbergh’s flight will be different from his grandfather’s in several ways. His plane is a modern, single-
engine plane. But his plane is smaller than the Spirit of Saint Louis. It has been changed to carry the extra fuel
needed to reach France. He will have modern communications equipment to link the plane with a command

center at the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri. And the public will be able to follow his progress.

An American cable television network, The History Channel, is recording¹² his
adventure. It will broadcast a special program about it on May twentieth, the
seventy-fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s historic¹³ flight.

“City of New Orleans”

HOST:

Our VOA listener question this week comes from China. Zheng Xiangyun wrote to ask about a song. The words
say, “Good morning America, how are you? Don’t you know me, I’m your native son.
”

The name of that song is “City of New Orleans.
”
The song is not about the famous city, but a train named after
it. Many years ago, most of the major trains in the United States had names. They were famous to the people who
rode them. The “City of New Orleans”
is one of the last of these. The City of New Orleans still travels from
the middle -western city of Chicago, Illinois, to the southern city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

The train they call the City of New Orleans leaves Chicago, crosses the Ohio River at Cairo (KAY-roe) Illinois,
and moves on to Memphis, Tennessee. It travels along the great Mississippi River and pulls into the Mississippi
State capital in Jackson. It passes along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana and into New Orleans.

The song called “City of New Orleans”
was written by Steve Goodman in Nineteen-Seventy. The words are


really a little sad. When he wrote the song, the American railroad industry was disappearing. One part of the song
says, “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues¹⁴.
”

Several singers have recorded “City of New Orleans.
”
One of the most popular recordings¹⁵ is by Arlo Guthrie.
So, here is Arlo Guthrie singing the Steve Goodman song, “City of New Orleans.
”
And thanks, Zheng
Xiangyun --we like the song too!

((CUT ONE: “CITY OF NEW ORLEANS“))

HOST:

This is Doug Johnson. I hope you enjoyed our program today. And I hope you will join
us again next week for AMERICAN MOSAIC
—
VOA’s radio magazine in Special
English.

This AMERICAN MOSAIC program was written by Nancy Steinbach, Paul Thompson
and Jerilyn Watson. Our studio engineer was Al Alavi. And our producer was Paul Thompson.

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1 mosaic   

n./adj.镶嵌细工的，镶嵌工艺品的，嵌花式的

参考例句：

• The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
• The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。

2 clandestine   

adj.秘密的，暗中从事的

参考例句：

• She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
• The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。

3 untold   

adj.数不清的，无数的

参考例句：

• She has done untold damage to our chances.她给我们的机遇造成了不可估量的损害。
• They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort.他们遭受着黑暗中的难以言传的种种恐怖，因而只好挤在一堆互相壮胆。

4 espionage   

n.间谍行为，谍报活动

参考例句：

• The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
• Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。

5 doughty   

adj.勇猛的，坚强的

参考例句：

• Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质：脾气倔强，性格刚强。
• The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。

6 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

7 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

8 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

9 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

10 saint   

n.圣徒；基督教徒；vt.成为圣徒，把...视为圣徒

参考例句：

• He was made a saint.他被封为圣人。
• The saint had a lowly heart.圣人有谦诚之心。

11 arthritis   

n.关节炎

参考例句：

• Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.风湿性关节炎也与这种病毒有关。
• He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.他患急性风湿性关节炎，在医院住了三个月。

12 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

13 historic   

adj.历史上著名的，具有历史意义的

参考例句：

• This is a historic occasion.这是具有重大历史意义的时刻。
• We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。

14 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。

15 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐