Word: day
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American World Airways will make two round trips a week, and daily round trips' from June through September, from New York to Rome, to carry U.S. pilgrims celebrating the Roman Catholic Holy Year. Pan Am, which does not have a scheduled route to Rome, will furnish ten-day, $698 all-expense tours...
...T.W.A., which squawked angrily at Pan Am's invasion of its Rome route, also offered Holy Year all-expense tours at special low rates through March. Sample: 15-day trips with stops at Rome, Paris and three other cities. Price, including hotels, meals, guides...
Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
...Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination of urgent theme and ideal writer that found adequate recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century...
...Polish Lieut. General Anders' account of his army's sacrifices and betrayals, An Army in Exile. U.S. big brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries and official records to get their stories on the record. Hard-boiled Major General Claire Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering in China in Way of a Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important...