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Hearst v. Intellectuals. In 1934 Publisher Hearst was granted an audience with Nazi Germany's Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, chatted with many another Nazi bigwig. Biographers Lundberg, Carlson & Bates believe the German junket explains Mr. Hearst's subsequent journalistic forays against pinko professors at Syracuse, Chicago, Columbia and New York Universities. "One of the first lessons he had learned from his German mentor was the importance of terrorizing the faculties of colleges and universities."-Carlson & Bates. "Since his German trip, Hearst has been very preoccupied with students."- Lundberg...
...Kansas City, preparing for a good will junket to Japan, Commander-in-Chief James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was called to the trans-pacific telephone for a $132 conversation with a Tokyo newshawk named Osoba. Commander Van Zandt said he had a message for Japanese veterans...
Coach Fred Mitchell swung the axe again yesterday, but 17 Varsity baseball players surviving the latest cut are sure of a train ride when the team makes its annual junket through the South next week...
Brother Hugh Howell, last of the blacksmith's brood, was for years a satellite of, but no relation to, famed Atlanta Lawyer Albert Howell, brother of Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Hugh Howell emerged from obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which...
...acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first sale ($200) were donated to a New York Matzoh Fund, a charity devoted to supplying needy Jews with Passover bread. Average pelt was auctioned...