Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinister side, Russia's Tass news agency reported that "a certain Douglas" had arrived in Persia for "Alpinistic purposes" and was heading for a town near the Russian border. Translation: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his son, on a Persian vacation junket, planned to climb Mt. Demavend...
Earthy Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell flew back from a two month junket on which he tried to use up some of his frozen royalties in twelve European countries. He liked Italy best, but thought the natives were getting fed up with U.S. visitors. Reported Caldwell: Rome is so overrun with the Hollywood crowd that street peddlers who sidle up to tourists with furtive propositions no longer peddle postcards or addresses. Now they whisper: "I've got a script...
...Americans, flown to Denmark by the U.S. Air Force, were dispatched by Virginia's Barter Theater on its first international junket. From its base in Abingdon, the Barter is far & away the most active professional repertory company touring the U.S. With a $10,000 annual grant from Virginia, the Barter is also the country's first state-subsidized theater...
...last week's papal bull, Pius XII warned his people not to plan the trip as a junket. "These pilgrimages," he wrote, "must not be made with the attitude of those who travel for pleasure, but with the spirit of piety which animated the faithful of past centuries, who, overcoming obstacles of all kinds, often afoot, came to Rome to wash away their sins with tears of sorrow and to implore of God peace and forgiveness...
...glory, Garbo had joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...