Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kingsley's Men in White and showcase MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary of Buffoon Danny Kaye's 32,000-mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta...
...biggest newcomer, Giant Step (Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.), will broaden the financial horizon for young people (ages 7-17) with vast knowledge. Top prize: a four-year scholarship to a college of the contestant's choice and, as a plum for graduating seniors, a junket around the world...
...Jordan's Sari Aweidah, 26, a producer-announcer with the government-owned Hashemite Jordan Broadcasting Service, the junket provided his first professional contact with TV. Biggest beef: the "24-hour-a-day 'disk jockey.' It is just appalling. Perhaps that is because in Jordan we like to think of radio as a field where you transmit education, through entertainment...
...Fuller came by his money through his father, a pioneering Manhattan urological surgeon with a canny eye for investments. His taste in art he owes to his mother, who began collecting Chinese antiques and Oriental snuff bottles in 1918, later took the whole Fuller family on a year-long junket through the Far East. Recalls Fuller: "I bought a small white jade in Hong Kong, and from then on nothing has been quite the same." Settling in Seattle, Fuller earned a Ph.D. in geology, a field in which he has won professional recognition, and revitalized Seattle's Northwest Glass...
...chartering a steamship for a royalty-only romp in 1954 chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other end of the sea aboard the Creole; he was "too busy" to go along...