Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moldings. Finally, almost diffidently, he walked up to the counter and cleared his throat. "Yes, sir? What can I do for you?" inquired the receptionist. The spy plunked Fielding's Travel Guide down on the counter. "My name," he announced, "is Temple Fielding. I happen to write this book here. Perhaps you've heard of it. I wonder if I could see the manager...
What Frommer says has the ring of solid silver. His Europe on $5 a Day outsells Fielding's Super-Economy Guide by about two to one, and one reason surely is the Fielding book's patronizing attitude toward low-budget travel. "What about the bargain-basement Continent of $1 rooms, 500 meals and 250 drinks?" reads the introduction. "Yes, you can ferret out those places?just as the visitor to New York City can ferret out a bed along the Bowery's Skid Row and a 250 meal at a soup kitchen. But you are an American." Fielding's people...
...driver that he wanted to pick up some cojónes (testicles); he meant cajónes (boxes). In his politics, Fielding leans to the right, but he bends over leftward when it comes to cigars (Cuban) and stands up straight when it means business. As he explains in the style book for his staff: "We are never political in Free World references. Wisecracks or bons mots involving Soviet, Chinese Communist, or similar enemy figures are used if desired...
Fielding calls his staff his "family." It consists of Temple, his wife Nancy ("My Nancy"), Joe Raff (ex-managing editor of the Rome Daily American), Raff's wife Judy and Robert Bone, formerly of TIME Inc.'s Book Division. Each Fielding family member has a nickname, which
...Fielding frequently errs himself. For annual corrections in cities that the five-member team has been unable to visit, Fielding is forced to rely on a network of friends?florists, restaurateurs, airline employees, local city-guide editors, shopkeepers. They commit numerous howlers?and so has Fielding. In his 1969 book, he says that there are "only 125 miles of turnpike" in France, when in fact there are more than 600. He calls St. Tropez on the Riviera "a sweet little port," and maybe it is?in the winter. During the warm summer months, it is the closest