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...wall in my room, the skis in the corner, the camera in my desk drawer and a canoe are all byproducts of TIME sales." When summer vacation at the University of Minnesota began last year, says our subscription agent Merrill Cragun, "I bought a convertible and took my first jaunt to the East Coast as a result of selling TIME." TIME commissions plus scholarships helped Bernard Tonchin work his way through Sir George Williams College in Montreal. And now he says, "TIME commissions are helping put me through dental school at McGill University...
...Jefferson, Iowa, the Cossets found a farmer foursome on the golf course ("French peasants will play golf the day that the Versailles Palace becomes a drive-in restaurant"), other farmers who fly their own Piper Cubs as much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen...
Last Christmas vacation the Crimson went West, losing all its games by large margins to Pittsburgh, Washington of St. Louis, and the University of Nebraska. Two years ago it also made a Western jaunt...
Daunted by Cambridge's rainy weather, the varsity tennis team will seek sunnier climes over spring vacation on its ten-day jaunt into the Southland. Coach Jack Barnaby and 12 of his players will leave the College today to give them an open day for travel before beginning their six-match tour at the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond on Sunday. On Monday, the team opens a schedule of four matches, playing North Carolina and Davison each twice. The final engagement will be with Navy on April 4, the first Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League contest for either school...
...wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much a pleasure jaunt, with the men spearing fish or taking surfboard exercise behind...