Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is simple. The American teams, which also include Princeton and Cornell, have in the past had to bear the brunt of each English team's travel expenses. Since the meets do not draw well here, the funds would this year, as usual, have to be provided outright by each college. The H.A.A. has decided that it does not this year possess the necessary two to three thousand dollars; Princeton, Yale, and Cornell are somewhat uncertain...
...cost a lot of money for new equipment, 2) make it necessary for children to travel longer distances to class. Many farmers just feel like the Holt County rancher who explained last week: "My grandpa learned in that there little school. So did I, and so did my kids. If I got anything to say about it. my kids' kids will be learning in that selfsame little school...
...Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as soon as it is weaned; if anyone else would like one, would you kindly remember that we have others?" With "two little white nightshirts and a red coral necklace," Baby Augustus was packed off to his new home. His godmother was a religious fanatic who felt that happiness was next...
...tourists, except retired multimillionaires, could ever find time or money to travel so high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command...
...rocks, Ruark is going back to reporting and expects to cut his column from five times a week to three, make it a "kind of global feature," reporting what he sees. From his base camp in Rome (where he will pay no U.S. income tax), Ruark plans to travel the world, starting off in Spain to fish and see the bullfights...