Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resident for 42 years, made $2.7 million, according to a tab kept by U.S. revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin antes up the debt voluntarily (most unlikely), there is little of his left in the U.S. to grab besides some old derbies, canes and turned-up brogans...
...Margaret, announced that he has resigned from the R.A.F., effective next fall. His plans for the future: an 18-month, globe-girdling tour in a Land Rover (the British blowup of a jeep), driving wherever there is the semblance of a road, traveling between hemispheres by ship. He will journey alone. Purpose of the trip: "I just want...
...Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...
...RUSSIAN JOURNEY (255 pp.)-William O. Douglas-Doubleday...
...Pacific Northwest, scaled 1950'S bestseller lists. The previous year, a hike up the peaks of Azerbaijan near the Russo-Iranian border brought a salvo of charges from the Soviet press that he was leading "a gang of spies." Uphill and down in seven years, the journeying justice has covered tens of thousands of miles, toured 20 lands and written five books about his travels. Folksy, candid, and inclined to ramble in peculiarly unlawyerlike fashion, Author Douglas has a keen eye for homely detail and an easy gift for projecting his friendly, open-faced curiosity about far-off people...