Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travel. In The Bronx an eleven-year-old boy returned home from ten-mile-distant Teaneck, N.J., where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike...
Reporting to Congress on an investigation of NYA during the past year, Mr. Warren declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys...
...Mine" fool you. It isn't the passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point is about as obscure...
...strange, monkey-like animal, probably the most sophisticated exponent of his species, is well acquainted with all the luxuries of air and ocean travel. He is now comfortably settled in Cambridge, happy with the eggs in his cage which he can squash and lap up at will...
...first time since the winter of 1935-36, the Varsity basketball team will travel west this year during the Christmas vacation, playing games against Detroit, Michigan State, Illinois, Bradley Tech, and Notre Dame, it was announced yesterday...