Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darby's chief regrets now are for the lost opportunities to fill out presidential foursomes at bridge and golf. On a campaign trip in 1952, Candidate Eisenhower invited Darby to play a rubber of bridge, but Darby pretended that he did not play. "I was certain I'd pull some boner that would forever mark me in Ike's book as a man not to be trusted," he says. Last year, during Ike's last Denver vacation, the chance came to play golf with the President. "I had to decline," Darby explains ruefully, "because it just...
...home for a few days before taking to the trout streams. Meanwhile, he and Mamie had worked out a compromise on vacation plans. The First Lady will remain in the air-conditioned comfort of the Gettysburg farm this week. Next week, when he makes a quick round trip to Philadelphia for a speech before the American Bar Association, Ike will pick her up and escort her to Denver by plane...
...Native's Return. In 1944 Mann became a U.S. citizen, but with the passing of the New Deal, he found a growing dissatisfaction with America. He made a trip to postwar Germany and was repelled by Germany's indifference to her recent crimes. But later, 15 years after taking refuge in America, he went back to Europe to live there permanently. "My feeling of being a European became so strong that I had to come back," he said...
...year-old Cowes shipbuilder's apprentice. After a World War I stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he bagged a berth aboard Typhoon, a 45-ft. auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again, started making his mark as a builder and sailor of yachts...
...Steve just as a man in a grey flannel suit. Rather, he is the unwilling wearer of a hair shirt imposed on him by a world he never made and is too weak to remake. Soon enough Steve gets a little outside ordinary life. On an auto trip to Maine with Nancy to pick up their children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal, he sees in him only the man who had the guts to lash back at life. In an ending that mixes brutality...