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...classic comics arrived ashore safely last week under different circumstances. While Harold Lloyd, 66, disembarked from the United States-natty and refreshed-after a four-month European junket with the family, Bert Wheeler, 65, had to be fished-saturated and exhausted-from Long Island Sound 40 minutes after his boat capsized...
...Next week Hupp's Gibson Refrigerator Division of Greenville, Mich, will spend nearly $2,000,000 to charter 31 Pan American 707 jets to fly 5,080 dealers from 23 U.S. cities to Honolulu for a sales convention; General Electric has chartered 17 jets for a similar junket this fall. All of the nation's 16 major-league ball clubs now travel on chartered planes, and there are even charter runs to ferry monkeys and elephants from India, blooded Irish race horses to and from the U.S. for stud service...
...landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons. He indulged his love of cognac in all-night drinking bouts, threatening to flatten anyone who dared doubt his boxing ability. When he left on his Cuban junket three weeks ago, Maruca, who had urged him to go, stayed behind...
...word 'junket' will henceforth be taboo in the deliberations of the Foreign Press Association of New York. On motion of Britishers on the executive board, it has been decided to substitute the term 'facility trips...
With Mustard. In Bushy Park, Middlesex, England, Billy Hudgins, 11, a sixth-grader in a U.S. Air Force elementary school, asked to write a theme on space travel, reckoned out the gastronomic requirements of an interplanetary junket: "584 ham sandwiches, 764 Coca-Colas and 407 cakes and pies...