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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baedeker catalogued and annotated the seven major and countless minor wonders of the world. Absolute musts were designated by -**, e.g., the Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Two-Star Civilization | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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