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...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
...From a junket through Germany, a refugee reporter (Gerhart H. Seger) brought back a "secret document"-a directive to Germany's Communist Party workers. In essence it is a restatement of worldwide Communist strategy. It appeared last week in Manhattan's liberal-labor, violently anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader. Excerpts...
...last week, at their two-room log cabin (175 miles northeast of Winnipeg, across the Ontario border), the Campbells were preparing for a real buying spree. It would be their first junket to "the Outside" in 14 years...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
...Asher Durand, once the nation's leading engraver, helped raise landscape painting to such esteem that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1858 ran an artists' excursion train, took Durand and a party of colleagues on a cross-country junket. The six-car train, equipped with piano, sofas, sleeping quarters and a photographic darkroom, stopped wherever an artist felt the urge to sketch. A popular success, Durand eventually became president of the National Academy of Design...