Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negotiations for the trip began last fall when Orchestra vice-president Frank H. Allen, '56, who toured overseas bases last summer as a member of an inter-collegiate jazz group, wrote to the Air Force suggesting that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra make such a trip. Although Allen had written mainly "out of curiosity," the Air Force replied four weeks ago that it was definitely interested in the proposal...
...Fall of Valor. In Jacksonville, county officials welcomed Harley Knight, 37, after he drove all the way from Durham, N.C. to answer a stolen-car charge, then learned that he had stolen another auto to make the trip...
...trip finished, I had a greater appreciation for the activities of the Key and House Committees, and I remembered the introductory speech to the tour. "House Committee officers are the governing bodies of the Houses, they do things like buy records and install automatic washing machines...
...charge up Kettle Hill (later renamed San Juan Hill as more romantic) and his African lion-hunting trip are familiar to every history book reader, but some minor adventures were every bit as dramatic. As a "gentleman rancher" in the Bad Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy sheriff who won considerable repute catching three rustlers by himself. His African trip has been well recorded, but a remarkable trip up the Amazon at the age of 58, on which he caught an almost fatal does of jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic...
...Pearl Harbor. Then came the Navy and the hitch in the band. Finally, along with more study at Columbia on the G.I. Bill, came the succession of prizes and (since last year) a full-time job as editorial adviser in the Manhattan offices of Broadcast Music. Inc. (B.M.I.). His trip to Tucson was his first visit in more than 15 years...