Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, just back in England from a visit to New York, notes that this trip marked his 29th transatlantic flight on business for TIME. Each staff member in the Bonn bureau averages about 30,000 miles a year, "taking planes the way most people take taxis," flying to Berlin, Belgrade, Vienna, Munich or Hamburg. Says Bonn's Frank White: "This is just our 'commuting mileage,' not including flights on military planes or the deliriously rare flight home." And the Paris bureau observes : "Air travel here is like taking...
Said Mrs. Hull as she packed for a trip to Tokyo: "I think my husband will be glad to get away from the Pentagon. He has spent more time there than any man in the Army...
...Vito has been asked several times to tour the U.S., once actually signed a contract, but her mother died and she canceled the trip. As a next best thing, RCA Victor plans to release some of her records soon, but De Vito, ever the perfectionist, is underjoyed. "I don't like any of them," she says...
...toot, on a few hours' notice once rounded up a steer's skull for a banker who wanted to take one back East for an artist friend. One oilman, who had bought thousands of dollars worth of gifts for his family, due back from a Florida trip on Christmas Eve, wasn't satisfied just to have the presents sent out in boxes. He arranged to have all the gifts put in a duplicate of a Neiman's show window, including spotlights and mannequins, in his house, so they would be the first things his family...
...when every other white man died? Gibson gives a number of reasons. After 13 years in tropical service, he was used to the sun and a hard outdoor life. Because of his broken collarbone he was spared the exhausting sessions in the water during the early days of the trip. More important still: "I early adopted a mood of passivity." Most important of all: "I was determined not to die . . . The body can always summon the last nicker of energy. But it has to be dictated by a refusal to accept death, a determination not to die, a knowledge that...