Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for two hours, then settled on something in taffeta with an off-the-shoulder effect. The shop ran it up, to order, and then Cugat sent it back. What the shop wants: $297.95, in jigtime...
...Bring 'Em Back Alive" [Frank Buck, who said: "You never see a deer get burned in a forest fire"-TIME, May 13] is sorely in need of some travel experience of the "See America First" variety. ... In the photographic files of the U.S. Forest Service are scores of official photos of deer carcasses, sometimes shown in heaps-all victims by roasting in forest fires...
...Russian iron curtain is nowhere more impenetrable than in Russia itself. Last week came a rare and revealing glimpse behind that curtain into the Soviet Ukraine. John Fischer, Harper's Magazine associate editor on leave with UNRRA, returned from three months of unrestricted work, travel and observation in the Ukraine with the outside world's most direct report on the region since...
Puzzle for Pan Am. But this was only a crumb compared to the vast bite the President had taken out of Pan Am's onetime monopoly in Latin America. For the first time, Pan Am has competition from U.S. lines the full length of the rich Latin American travel area...
...Administration, had refused to fire an assistant purser whom the crew, members of the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, did not like. So members of the N.M.U. refused to sign on the Washington. The War Shipping Administration ordered the Washington sent to a shipyard for reconversion to peacetime travel...