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"Home is a Dice place to visit-but I wouldn't want to live there!"
That's what Bob Hope said jokingly on one of his recent TV shows But even though the line was delivered strictly as a gag, a few in the audience couldnl help wondering whether there wasn't a grain of truth in it.
After all-iWt Bob Hope always leaving home? In the past six months alone, he's spent days or weeks in Seattle, Las Vegas, Banff, New York, Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam— and months in merrie olde England. His brother told me, "Every time Bob comes home, he has to be introduced to his family."
I talked to Bob himself, plus many of the people around him— including his wife, who turned out to know him quite well— in order to learn just why Bob keeps leaving home so often that he makes a Fuller Brush Man look like AliceSit-by-the-Fire.
In the course of my investigations, I was surprised to learn that:
(1) Bob has been leaving home regularly since he was old enough to walk.
(2) There's something about Bob's trips that the public completely misunderstands.
(3) In a way, Bob's wife is glad that he can take these trips!
I started by talking to George Hope, Bob's younger brother, who now works for him. "It's in his blood to travel," George told me. "When we were kids in Cleveland, Bob thought nothing of hopping on a freight train and taking off. Our mother was always looking for him. But when he got hungry, he came home . . . and fast!
"We were always a close-knit family, though, just as Bob and his own family are today." He grinned. "Of course, he didn't know he had four children until his son Tony graduated from Georgetown last summer and Bob was invited there to accept a degree. He took one look at Tony and said, 'You're my son? With an education, yet?' "
Then George added, "Seriously, Bob keeps on the go even when he's at home. He hates to sit still. He'll shoot billiards, play golf, take a walk, work on a book, go fishing, go swimming, do a benefit He's always 'on' (Continued on page 86)
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