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...Sinatra, carrying on his round-the-world pursuit of Cinemactress Ava Gardner, entered new territory when he and Ava flew off to Mexico for "a quiet vacation" together. It turned out to be neither very quiet nor much of a vacation. At El Paso, when reporters asked if the junket was going to include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City he lost...
...with his partner William Thomas, in trying to give the public what it wants. Pine & Thomas, proud to be known as "the Dollar Bills," have made money on 63 of their 64 pictures. On the theory that exhibitors are the best guides to public taste, they make an annual junket to sound the theater men out. After listening to them this season, Pine reported...
...Pacific Northwest, the only part of the U.S. he had never seen. In Portland, Ore., he met a newspaperman who was about to start on a high-speed tour of the Western national parks. The American Automobile Association was paying expenses and providing a white-painted Ford for the junket. When Wolfe was invited to go along, he jumped at the chance...
When 14 members of the House Public Works Committee took off in a U.S. Air Force C-54 last fortnight for a 3,000-mile tour of the proposed St. Lawrence seaway, seasoned Washington hands wrote it off as just another junket. It was well known that a committee majority opposed the $935 million project and probably would let it die. Last week when the committeemen got back to Washington, it looked as though the experts had forgotten the old saw that seeing is believing...
...highlight of the present year was a three-day junket to New York City during the fall reading period. Niemans were guests of ex-Niemans now living in New York at a dinner with Carroll Binder, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and U. S. representative on the UN Commission on Freedom of Information. They spent the next day poking into affairs of the U. S. UN Mission headquarters, visiting UN facilities at Lake Success and sipping cocktails with New York Times editors...