Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Worker ran a contest in which the person selling the most subscriptions would get a free trip to Puerto Rico, then the Red equivalent of TV's trip to Bermuda. Harvey Matusow badgered his friends to contribute to various causes (he offered a wide selection, since he was a member of 46 front organizations), and diverted the money he got into the Daily Worker contest. When he learned that he was still far behind in the competition, he dug up $100 out of his own pocket and faked a list of new subscribers. The party proudly announced that...
...with a news beat over ribal NBC. On the train, Harvey had got to chatting with Mrs. Marjorie Llewellyn, wife of one of the U.S. flyers imprisoned by Red China. Harvey aired the story of her hopes to visit her husband and also the information that her trip to Chicago from Missoula, Mont., was being paid for by NBC to present Mrs. Llewellyn and her views on Today...
...past years, however, the Eastern Selection Committee has followed an unofficial pattern of picking one team from the New England area and the other from the further west Tri-State League. Last season RPI and Boston College were selected, while in 1953 Yale and St. Lawrence made the trip...
...permission to go back to New York, instead of hanging around Hollywood, whenever she finished a picture. She was only 22, and all but unknown. But M-G-M agreed to her terms. Says Grace: "I wanted Mogambo for three things: John Ford, Clark Gable, and a free trip to Africa." In Africa, Grace picked up a lot of film technique from Ford and developed a hero worship for Gable. Ford was soon predicting that she would be a star. For her performance as the cool English wife stirred to sudden and thwarted passion for White Hunter Gable, Grace...
...Iberia executive: "It's just gotten too big for us. We have to refuse hundreds of people every day." Potholes & Safety Belts. The reason for Iberia's booming business is simply that flying is the best way to get around in Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed, mountainous roads. But in one of Iberia's 32 British and American planes (mostly Douglas DC-3s and DC-4s) the Barcelona trip takes less than...