Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...date on what has happened and is going to happen in his field (Treasury, State Department, Army & Navy, etc.) each correspondent spends most of his week going his separate way, interviewing sources, etc.-which may include, as it did recently, an assignment to Bikini or a political depth-sounding junket into Pennsylvania. The one time during the week when the whole staff gets together is at the bureau chief's story conference on Wednesday morning...
...Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There can be no higher praise of any artist's product than that...
John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
Next and final objective for the U.S. team is Australia, which has been clutching the famed tennis trophy since international play stopped in 1939. Before the Australian junket begins in November, there will be a real battle among five top U.S. players. The not-so-sures: Parker, who may be replaced by Tom Brown, his conqueror in last fortnight's Nationals; Talbert and Mulloy, who may give way to a Ted Schroeder-Kramer doubles team. Kramer is the one sure bet to keep a big Christmas week date with the Aussies at Melbourne...