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Last week's lifting of passport restrictions to Iron Curtain countries by the State Department has prompted several travel bureaus to arrange tours to the Soviet Union for the first time this summer, a check of various agencies revealed yesterday...
...powerful Briton in the U.S., unofficial head of His Majesty's World War I secret service in the U.S. and Woodrow Wilson's "confidential Englishman." Afterward he joined Kuhn, Loeb, the second greatest U.S. private banking house (the first: J. P. Morgan & Co.), but kept his British passport and his family title, which was conferred by James II. A sometime playwright (one play) and much married (three marriages, two unsuccessful), he spoke softly in a clipped British accent, attired himself in double-breasted navy blue, and kept out of the papers...
...occasion Frye had a brief run in with the MVD. While eating with some Indian travelers he had met, he was discovered by a trio of MVD agents. At first they were unable to believe that he was an American, and apparently traveling without restriction. When he produced a passport and other documents, the reaction from the chief MVD agent was, "But this is impossible." The agents left the room perplexed, and, Frye surmises, went off to telephone Moscow for instructions. When Frye emerged from the room, only one of the agents was around...
...Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
Frankie has his gang. He is rarely to be seen without a few. and sometimes as many as ten of "the boys" around him, and some look indeed like unfortunate passport photographs. A few of the Sinatra staff-Manager Hank Sanicola, Writer Don McGuire, Makeup-man "Beans" Ponedel-have established and important functions, but most of the others are classified as "beards and hunkers,"* and as they march in bristling phalanx along Sunset Strip, Frank walks lordly at the head of them...