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...innocent young girl, Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will...
...That junket of McCooey's down to the White House was just to make it look as though he still has his finger in the pie," said a Quayle spokesman. "He is positively...
...target" of TIME, Publisher Amon Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is one of those positive, colorful characters to whose deeds and utterances legend speedily attaches. He was the central figure of TIME'S report of Postmaster General Farley's junket to Texas last month. Let readers seeking a sharper picture of Publisher Carter reread TIME'S report of Oct. 30 and compare it point by point with Publisher Carter's auto-interpretation, published in full (unedited) below...
First-you say that "Publisher Carter reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder." Permit me to say that I own no stock in the American Airways, though at one time I was the possessor of 500 shares, which I disposed of many months...
...World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world revolution all by himself. Had "Klim" been...