Word: detours
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...apparent don't-care attitude of this whole vacation was baffling, even more baffling was the one occasion when the Thomasville vacationers seemed to care greatly. That was when newsmen began questioning Jim Hagerty about the announcement that the President would take a 3,000-mile detour from Thomasville to Phoenix in the Columbine III to drop Mamie Eisenhower off at Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health farm...
Because Pierre is an apprentice welder with little classroom training in chemistry, the French press turned him into a national celebrity. "By what detour," thundered Brussels' Le Peuple, "did Poitrinal, incontestably gifted for the exact sciences, wind up working as an apprentice welder...
...show, with book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson. One result is that it does seem created, that it displays a style, a sense of one-man showmanship. It also achieves a sustained swinging tempo; as his own triumvirate, Willson escapes all the Stop and Go, the Detour and Closed for Repairs signs of musicomedy collaborations. Boasting a brisk production, and in Robert Preston a delightful star, this 1912 tale of an itinerant con man, a musical ignoramus who invades an Iowa town posing as a bandleader, has unrationed, oldfashioned, bring-the-whole-family high spirits...
...Warming up for a pleasant New Year in the Rose Bowl, Ohio State swarmed over Michigan, 31-14. <1 Oregon, also Rose Bowl-bound, made a detour along the way by losing to Oregon State...
...Oregon, also Rose Bowl-bound, made a detour along the way by losing to Oregon State...