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Duluth Radio-TV Executive Dalton LeMasurier, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 45, were accustomed to traveling as they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
...Crimson baseball team will meet Cornell tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. on Soldiers Field. The varsity will enter its first Ivy League contest with three straight, and solid, Greater Boston League victories and a rainy southern junket under its belt...
...longer be relied upon. The Kremlin's current irresolution owes much to him. So does Communism's great loss of prestige around the world. Bulganin and Khrushchev, because of him, could not now expect to be received at Buckingham Palace or make the same kind of laughing-boy junket through Asia, and all over Western Europe, disillusioned Communist sympathizers turned away in nausea. Destroyed also was the 1984 fantasy that a whole generation could be taught to believe that wrong was right, or could be emptied of all integrity and curiosity. But his greatest triumph was moral: he demonstrated...
...debut. The Secret Life of Danny Kaye, on CBS's See It Now, was a 90-minute film of one of the most widely staged and widely publicized benefits in show-business history. The subject: Kaye's bone-bruising, tongue-twisting, 35,000-mile junket around most of the world on behalf of the nonpolitical United Nations Children's Fund. The stars: Danny Kaye in a multitude of piquant, nimble versions, and hundreds of the 40 million underprivileged children who have received milk, shoes and medical aid from UNICEF. The show was filmed...
...known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory and immoral solution...