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...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
Back home, the Daily Worker, given to glowering at Browder as an "anti-working-class intriguer," was already on the presses with its own intriguing explanation of his junket abroad. Humphed the Worker in its most Comradely gobbledygook: "The essence of the Browder trip is that it is one in a line of provocations intended to reinforce the typical reactionary falsehood that the American Communist party has organizational connections abroad...
Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...
...over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with guided tour of the bombed areas...
McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys...