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...Welcomed Eleanor Roosevelt back from a 24-day, 14,000 mile jaunt through the Caribbean. Arriving home, tanned and longing for a shampoo, Mrs. Roosevelt brought a souvenir for the President's library: a model jangada (native one-sail, one-paddle boat) made by a Recife fisherman. Said she to the press: "Easter? Oh, it's next week, isn't it? I haven't any new clothes and won't have...
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...
Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...
...Hanover, N.H., where he retired so that he could lope through its wooded hills, he put a "Private" sign on his door in the Dartmouth College Field House. He ate such unorthodox foods as fried scallops before going out for a two-mile jaunt. He made friends with a local Swedish-speaking minister, told a visiting newshawk that he liked the minister "because he can't put what I say into the Bible...
...Southern Governors, instead of being anti-Roosevelt, now began to scramble to be his next Vice President (see p. 24). Franklin Roosevelt told reporters he was getting a tremendous lift out of his jaunt...