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Most prolific of all travel writers-and Fielding's chief competitor-is Eugene Fodor, who grinds out a fat Guide to Europe and individual guidebooks to 17 nations every year. Unlike Fielding, his books cover the full range of tourism, from historical background to such practical tips as how to kick a hangover in Paris (drink Fernet-Branca) and how to gamble in casinos (for the best odds, play trente et quarante). Trouble is, Fodor leaves the actual writing and research of his books to a staff of 100 contributors, and the results are wildly uneven. He is good...
...coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend in Budapest. In Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie has become a bustling portal for tourists who want a peek behind the Wall. But of the major writers, only the Hungarian-born Fodor seems to be aware that the Iron Curtain exists; Fielding dropped all his Eastern European sections...
Golden Age. For Gunther, who arrived there in 1930, it also meant some pretty fast journalistic company. Such famed Vienna hands and visiting correspondents as Vincent Sheean, William L. Shirer, the New York Evening Post's roving Dorothy Thompson and its resident Balkanologist M. W. ("Mike") Fodor, I.N.S.'s H. R. Knickerbocker, the Chicago Daily News's Negley Farson-and many other now-legendary figures-were Gunther's cablehead competitors and constant café companions. Together, they zestfully created the profession and the mystique of the U.S. foreign correspondent, and built the by-lined reputations that...
...TIME cover story are, in a way, like those of a miniature -spaciousness within economy, careful balance and meticulous detail. For a year TIME'S editors have been watching the Shah's progress with a cover story in mind, and Beirut Correspondents William McHale and Dennis Fodor have ranged widely over the Iranian countryside. After one trip to the remote rug-making town of Tabriz, McHale had to return to Teheran in "an ancient Russian sedan with weak brakes and uncertain gears. For 15 hours we groaned up hills, whistled down mountain slopes in neutral, while the driver...
...Iran's election crisis suddenly hit, McHale covered angry rallies, turned up at the Shah's press conference - a regal affair where reporters wear cutaways and striped trousers - and "clumped down in the rear row, hoping my blue suit wouldn't seem too shabby." He and Fodor met their deadline with a massive report to Foreign News Writer Richard Armstrong, who, having drawn on background material put together by Researcher Nancy McD. Chase, turned out the story of a hardworking king in trouble. What McHale and Fodor needed then was rest-perhaps in a miniature-like garden...