Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping up with the travels of TIME'S staff is a round-the-clock job for the transportation experts in TIME'S Travel Bureau. Each month the department buys the transportation and handles all the details for some 1,500 "legs" of trips. A "leg" may be anything from a New York-Washington flight to arranging (at the peak of the tourist season) passage for Correspondent Thomas Dozier and family on a ship from New York to Spain, where he is to take over this month as Madrid bureau chief...
Getting tickets and reservations to match tight working schedules is only part of the job. Old passports have to be renewed, new ones obtained, visas and drivers' licenses procured on fast notice. Other duties of the Travel Bureau range from shipping automobiles and camera equipment to arranging for accident insurance and medical exams before the travelers take off. At times the bureau acts as a detective agency to locate a far-flown correspondent who has to be reached in a hurry...
...this time of the year, the Travel Bureau's work hits its annual peak-for it also lends a helping hand to TIME-Incers leaving on long U.S. vacation trips. Sometimes a trip is a combination of business and pleasure. An example is the trip which the bureau recently organized for TIME Lecturer John Scott. With his wife and daughter, he left for a 14-week tour of 14 European and Middle Eastern countries to gather new material for his talks. Among other things, the bureau had to get 21 separate visas by the time the Scotts' plane...
...airlines, railroads and steamship companies. Occasionally, however, the bureau gets a surprise request. One of the most unusual came from a TIME executive planning an out-of-town convention who asked for a theater car on the train that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with theater seats, in which meetings could be held en route. Finally, someone in the Pullman Co. remembered that at one time they had equipped a theater...
...mistress goes on holiday to Constantinople, has a bad night at roulette, sells the earrings. Bought by an Italian diplomat, the widower Baron Donati (De Sica), they travel with him to his new post-at Paris, where in the course of social events he renews acquaintance with his old friend, the count, and is introduced to the countess. Later, while the count is away on maneuvers, the baron executes a few of his own. To the amazement of both parties to the little intrigue, people of the world as they think themselves to be, they fall in love...