Word: junketeering
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Highlighting the evening were continual references to plans for the club's tentatively scheduled junket to the Scandinavise countries during the summer of next year. Latest indications are that the singers will spend almost two months abroad, presenting concerts in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands...
Almost as quiet was Harold Stassen, self-avowed G.O.P. presidential aspirant, headed homeward after an eight-week junket which had touched almost every country in Europe. He had spent most of his time with businessmen, or conferring with political leaders. He had seen Stalin (see PRESS). Last week, in Stockholm, his path crossed Henry Wallace's-the third of the trio. They did not meet. Said Stassen of Wallace: "I did not come here to listen to him." Said Wallace of Stassen: "Maybe he feared he would get tainted...
...very old man," said a solicitous Chinese general to Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. "Go home and lie down now." The general did not know what manner of septuagenarian he was talking to. Even when 70-year-old Dr. Coffin came home last month from his seven-month junket to the Far and Middle East, he did not lie down for long. He was too busy telling his fellows Christians about his trip...
Billy Rose, Broadway showman-columnist, who got a look at postwar Europe on a junket about a year ago, decided to import 25 war orphans and raise them on the 125 acres he added last year to his 57-acre farm in Mt. Kisco...
...basketball players will be leading a clean, athletic existence. Practice sessions will continue at the Indoor Athletic Building until Monday, when the members of the squad return to their home firesides for Christmas, but the evening of December 26 will find them convened at Cleveland, first stop on the junket...