Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired and rumpled as any returning tourist, tactless Harry Vaughan stepped off a banana boat in New York last week after a vacation in Guatemala, and promptly put his foot in his mouth. The day was hot and so was he, but a reporter managed to tag him for a...
A few hours later, Vaughan stepped off the train in Washington's sweltering Union Station. He tried to duck, but newsmen cornered him. One reporter asked Vaughan who paid for the Guatemala vacation. Vaughan flushed, drew back to strike the questioner, then changed his mind. "What the hell business...
On the sinister side, Russia's Tass news agency reported that "a certain Douglas" had arrived in Persia for "Alpinistic purposes" and was heading for a town near the Russian border. Translation: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his son, on a Persian vacation junket, planned to climb...
Radio's critics have complained that radio is too lazy to produce its own comedians. This summer, while such vaudeville-trained funnymen as Fred Allen and Jack Benny are on vacation, radio hopes to answer the critics with three young, homegrown comics: Henry Morgan, Abe Burrows and Dave Garroway...
U.S. educators had only been toying with the idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around...