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...Route. When the President goes junketing to Hyde Park or Warm Springs, three cars usually take care of his whole party. But last week's journey was more than a junket. It took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama...
Back in Manhattan from a European junket, James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, windy chairman of the Committee on America Self-Contained, announced that the nation's "most influential person" is now Countess Haugwitz (Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
Barking orders to police cars by radio as he tears around Tokyo in his "Police Station On Wheels," slim, high-strung Chief of Police Shohei Fujinuma looks the picture of a genial, super-progressive 20th Century Japanese. One day last week the visiting puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, whose State junket to Tokyo has cost Japan $1,000,000 (TIME, April 15), departed laden with $150,000 worth of gifts, observing with Chinese dryness, "I should like to repeat this visit soon." Next morning Police Chief Fujinuma called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...