Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Talk. Some women have decided they don't have to go out- not where there are any men, anyhow. Said the young girl in Iowa: "Honestly, I must travel with the wrong bunch. I know 18 wives and sweethearts of servicemen and I don't know of anyone stepping out. Maybe the environment has something to do with it. We all live at home with our folks. Maybe it would be a lot tougher if we were just rooming somewhere...
Before Franklin Roosevelt left for Yalta, the White House correspondents of the three wire associations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) were given medical shots for foreign travel. But the President left without them. Later, they received permission to follow him. Before they could get there, the news was out. No one would say last week why the correspondents were left at the post. Best guess: Franklin Roosevelt had been willing to have the newsmen along, had hoped to get an assent from Stalin and Churchill, had failed...
...Government's virtual ban on convention travel (deadline, Feb. 1) made this convention the last such gathering any of the buyers would attend until the transportation crisis eases. They were already strapped for merchandise (anything they bought was as good as sold), but with few exceptions the apparel manufacturers were accepting no new customers. They were favoring the old ones only with 75% to 80% of last year's orders and talking direly of slow deliveries. Furthermore, spokesmen warned all & sundry that the apparel industry faces a possible 1945 decline of $500,000,000 in retail dollar volume...
Floyd Stahl's charges will seek to repeat their sole win of the campaign tomorrow night when their Charles River, rivals travel here from M.I.T. to ring down the curtain on the current season. The Crimson downed, the Techmen, 52 to 47, in an earlier meeting on the losers' court...
...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...