Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a personal staff of six chamberlains, Crown Prince Akihito, 19, sailed from Tokyo on the S.S. President Wilson for his first trip abroad, a six-month journey which will take in the coronation in London. Emperor Hirohito gave his son a bon voyage present of pearl cuff links; the Empress personally packed his wardrobe trunk. Both parents watched the Prince's departure on a palace...
...with Bert Lytell in The Second Man when she was spotted by a scout for Universal Pictures. He dangled a Hollywood offer before her, but Ros sat down to read all the fine print and suggested a few hardheaded revisions. They finally settled on giving her an expenses-paid trip to the West Coast and a flat fee of $100 for each screen test...
...rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command) round Vic out as a six-continent man. (There has never been a tennis tournament in Antarctica...
Last week, back in Manhattan from an African hunting trip, he announced that he is pulling up stakes, moving to Rome and radically changing his column. Says he: "I don't think a man can be a fresh provocative writer in the same pattern for more than seven or eight years. And I think the public is getting tired of being told what's what by pundits and columnists like me ... I have a yen to be what I was [i.e., a reporter] before public demand perverted me into a wise...
...churches along the shores of the Mediterranean. When the president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Henry P. Van Dusen, took a few months off early this year for some churchly visitation he calmly set out to visit church groups on four continents and in 20 countries, a trip of some 40,000 miles.* Last week in a sermon at Wellesley College, Dr. Van Dusen reported what he had found on his "plane's-eye view of Christianity around the world...