Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he got into trouble for writing off-color lyrics; Yale, where he got a B.A. and wrote the Eli football songs Bingo and Bulldog; Harvard, where he took the law dean's advice...
Pearls & Sauce Cooks. A man who can afford to get tired of a place, he would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound...
...still clings to the Porter plan for living. He will be back in Paris in the spring-his first trip to Europe since his accident. His mansion in the French capital is now occupied by a school...
...knew a little more. In 1930, on a trip through Africa and the Middle East, Novelist Evelyn Waugh had dined with Besse on the roof of his home in Aden. Waugh had described him (under the pseudonym of M. Leblanc) in When the Going Was Good: "He talked of Abyssinia, where he had heavy business undertakings ... he expressed his contempt for the poetry of Rimbaud . . ." He thrived on risk and had made and lost more than one fortune. He liked shark-infested waters: it made swimming more interesting...
...last week's Science Magazine, Dr. D. B. Shimkin of Harvard's Russian Research Center reported on a uranium-prospecting trip he has made through Russian geological literature. Pay dirt, he said, has been found all the way from the Ukraine to far eastern Siberia...