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...within the University Travel Association appeared a rift, a split. One A. J. Mclntosh, who helped organize the Ryndam's cruise, lamented Editor Allen's statement and announced that a new organization, to be called The International University Cruise, Inc., would conduct another co-educational globe-trot next autumn on the Cunarder Aurania. "We are going to allow parents or other relatives to accompany the students," said...
...There is many a story which people like to tell to show that I am a harum-scarum princess. Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, tireless Westernizer, scowled last week as he entered the new Hotel Erkraf at his grubby capital, Angora, and found the dance floor all but deserted, though the band was playing a fox trot according to his orders, and officers with their wives were numerous...
...next few moments we counted some thirteen or fourteen riders, all of whom seemed to have chosen us as a common goal. We urged our camels to a trot and then to a gallop, while the wind continued to rise and the air to fill with dust. Nearer came the riders, gaining rapidly, so that it seemed that half an hour would bring them upon us. Ten minutes more and we ran into a dried river course, filled with smooth, rounded stones, the most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses...
...best. Furthermore, there is that enveloping quality about Author Benefield's troubled situations that reaches far beyond the particular persons and scenes to include all men's troubles, of all kinds. Finally, there is gentle, whimsical accuracy of detail, in few words-how little mules trot; an Italian undertaker "ostentatiously piddling through his ornate futilities"; an executive's comfort in his row of pearl-topped desk buttons; a kitty named John the Baptist...