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Food seems to be the determinant for London office vacationists, several of whom, like Bureau Chief John Osborne, have already fled to the lusher larders of Switzerland or Ireland. Others will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then...
Although the Mediterranean ("bluer than ever this year") drew its quota from the Paris office, Correspondent William Chapman chose to seclude himself in a rented room and terrace of an 11th Century tower on a river near Tours. Bureau Chief Charles Wertenbaker, en route to the Basque coast ("my favorite place in the world"), tarried in Spain for his favorite spectator sport, bullfighting, and was so moved that he turned out a report of what he saw for TIME (July...
...East, vacation-planning was more difficult. The Tokyo staff has to face the fact that resort hotels have been taken over by U.S. occupation forces and Japanese inns are impossibly crowded. "In view of these obstacles," the bureau advised, "I think you will be safe in saying that the Tokyo staff will spend its vacation catching up on sleep...
...discs," first observed, as you know (TIME, July 14), in the U.S., and subsequently reported as having been seen in various overseas areas. In particular, the British press has followed the accounts of this display of celestial crockery with minute interest and incredulity. William Gray, head of our Shanghai bureau, anticipating a query from us about the Chinese angle of this phenomenon, sent us the following cable on the eve of his departure for a reporter's tour of Manchuria...
...looked like a white-hot stovepipe flashed wickedly over the heads of three men in a boat, they said. Other Canadians saw flying teacups. J. William Sheets of Seattle announced quietly: "They come through our yard all the time." E. E. Unger, meteorologist in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau at Louisville, Ky., reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk "as big as a washtub" dive, then shoot...