Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phoenix he hinted that he and his wife Nancy, as President and First Lady, would make Arizona their vacation ground. This went over so well that he tried it again in Albuquerque. "I am coming back," he said, "and I am bringing my wife Nancy on my next trip. Some Presidents go to Key West. Some Presidents go to Denver. When I am President, I may wind up spending my vacations in the beautiful sunshine of New Mexico...
...When he died in 1805 on the deck of his Victory after Trafalgar, Lord Nelson was deposited in a cask of brandy for the long trip home. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...
...left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas...
Homage from Five Flies. Reed has a short memory for distracting detail-he even forgets which year he became president of American Express-but he has a phenomenal capacity for cramming facts and figures into his head on any problem he is studying. Last June, on an exploratory trip to Hawaii, he gathered enough information in three days to decide to open a Waikiki office. "In those three days," recalls a Honolulu businessman, "Reed knew more about Hawaii than 90% of the people who live here...
From Guns to Eggs. Massachusetts-born, Bob McLane studied at Babson Institute before he went off to World War II, fought across The Netherlands, returned to Europe after the war as a military government clerk in Wiesbaden. On a trip home in 1949 McLane first ran afoul of the law. U.S. customs officials arrested him in Boston for bringing in an undeclared diamond ring, got him convicted in Federal Court and fined $500. ; Back in Europe that year McLane took leave from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea...