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...Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much persuasion to junket to Princeton...
...When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle on an innocent junket, to stir up the Saints in foreign lands...
...presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...
...spite of the "administrative responsibilities" of the past 16 years, Scripps-Howard's Howard has nevertheless managed to keep a dramatic hand in "national and international relationships." In the past three years he has circled the globe twice. The last junket, from which he returned last April, kept him away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin and his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, arrived in San Francisco from their three-month junket to the Far East, posed blithely with their shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...