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...Cruz had more than verbal persuasion to work with. Perón's government had granted 600,000 pesos for expenses, and impecunious professors could thus be offered a handsome junket with all expenses paid, plus 25 pesos a day for spending money and a bonus of 2,000 pesos for reading a paper. That did the trick, and brought in many of Europe's and Latin America's philosophical bigwigs...
...club's performance on the southern swing. "The Navy game was the best game I ever saw," he said. "Beautiful plays, beautiful plays. I thought they'd blow wide open down south." Actually, the Crimson made only four errors all in the infield--during the three-game junket...
...visiting Russian artists and scientists, and their American friends, wanted to take their Manhattan "peace" show on road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...
Eighteen players, accompanied by their coach, a trainer, tow managers, and one publicity director, will make the southern junket. The men who will tackle the six-games-in-six-days schedule include pitchers Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, Roy Meears, and Barry Turner; catchers Cliff Crosby and Web Durant; infielders Walt Coulson, Harry Cavanaugh, Mort Dunn, Ernie Mannino; and outfielders John Caulfield, Steve Howe, Hal Moffie, Dick Kobusch, Gordy Ellis, and Kevin Reilly...
...deal was as timely as it was big; Selznick's studio and releasing organization were at a standstill. He was planning a European junket to get his fingers into a couple of British film productions. Insiders said that he was just waiting until his heavy investment came rolling back from his latest, long-delayed production, Portrait of Jennie. Meanwhile, though he lacks the kind of ready cash that he needs to make his kind of picture (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun), he would have some pocket money...