Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time came, he would be aboard the right plane. But on Oct. 11, 1959, when he showed up at St. Louis' airport an hour before he was scheduled to take off for Los Angeles on TWA's Flight 77, he was told that his seat in the tourist-class section of the plane had been given to a ticket-holding fellow traveler-from first class...
...acted as his own attorney in the case. Says Wills: "I'm a guy who can be pushed sideways, but not backwards. What made me mad was the idea of this fellow jerking the ticket out of my hand." At the trial, he pointed out that his tourist reservation was made prior to the first-class reservation of the passenger for whom he was bumped and contended that he, a tourist-class passenger, had been discriminated against...
...Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
Finding his career in banking somewhat "constricting," Britain's Viscount Eden of Royal Leamington Spa, 31, sportive bachelor son of the ex-Prime Minister, bounded off into a new enterprise-a London tourist agency. For fees ranging up to $300 weekly, the former swain of Princess Alexandra was Cooking up services ranging from auto renting to ticket broking, and an added come-on for visiting Yanks: "Introductions to the right people...
Clement pointed out that Cuba profited from the Adkins Lab through the fruits of student research projects, as a place for an academic exchange of views with scholars from several countries, through the Garden's part-time activity in human nutrition and other fields, and also as a tourist attraction...