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With the pinball vacationist has departed the simple, wide open hundred dollar machine; the New Look in pinball apparatus is a $400, 50 magnet, hundred relay contraption that can take a lusty belt in the back. In the old days there were scarcely more than ten bumpers on the whole playboard, perhaps one or two runways, and no bonuses. Total score and tripping every bumper were the only ways to rack up free games; but the new devices coming out of Chicago, the pinball capital of the world, contain never fewer than a dozen bumpers, a horde of runways...
...Murray Bay, Quebec, decorous Senator Robert A. Taft, who would soon tour the West to learn how he looked to them out there as a presidential candidate, took off his coat, set a vacationist's hat squarely on his head, turned up his trouser cuffs, and did his earnest best (for photographers) to look like a happy-go-lucky golfer...
Treasury agents, who had anxiously awaited their first opportunity to pounce on some venal vacationist, pounced on Lady Stanley for secretly spending hundreds of pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia...
Summer's onset trapped many a U.S. vacationist flat on his own front porch. The plain citizen was marooned at home, with a well-stuffed wallet. He had plenty of easy-come money to be easygoing with, and not a thrilling thing to spend...
When Miami Beach's swank, expensive Nautilus Hotel refused to bar photographers and newsmen who wanted to interview him, Vacationist John L Lewis checked out in a huff...