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Last week Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka ended his flying visit to Japan's Axis partners and started home from Berlin via Moscow. It had been an untimely junket. No sooner had the trip been announced than the U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill. No sooner had Minister Matsuoka arrived in Berlin than Yugoslavia rose against politicians who had sold out to Adolf Hitler. Before he had arrived in Rome, the British, without losing a life, gave the Italian Navy its worst beating of the war. As he started for home he heard of ominous events in Manila...
...World War II job. In 1930 he poked about the Caribbean for two months with a crew of 46 U. S. youngsters, to teach them "a love of the sea." By 1937 he was back in his World War I hunting grounds on a two-year round-the-world junket. With his sailing yacht Seeteufel he slipped through Australian waters, taking soundings, making a picture record of his trip with the help of a Nazi Government photographer. A New Zealander who accompanied him from Auckland to Sydney discovered the Seeteufel buttressed with steel braces, stocked with arms and munitions...
...Rumania like volleys of bloody popcorn. Queen Mother Helen was reported to have fled the country, King Mihai I was variously reported with his mother, at the outskirts of Bucharest, conferring with German Army leaders in his palace. Vice Premier Sima was reported on a trouble-shooting junket all over the country...
...theatre last fortnight went all that is left of big-time U. S. vaudeville. It was a troupe of seven energetic young cinemactors and actresses led by a columnist-Hearst's triple-threat Hollywood gossip dispenser, roly-poly Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons. On this, her second cross-country junket, Lolly Parsons was again proving that a columnist's best business is his vaudeville, that vaudeville's best business is its columnists...
...affectionate, voluble, energetic, terrierlike man, Hans Zinsser had a strong fondness for wine, women, horses, books. Two years ago, returning from a junket to China, he noticed that the sun on ship board turned him not healthy brown but lemon yellow. He knew then that there was something serious the matter with his blood. Back in Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover...