Word: frommer
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...Maya E. Frommer ’07 certainly thinks so, and so, apparently, do a lot of other people...
...behind a mask of resolve. On the first day of Operation Repression I vowed to do London on $10 a day. After paying for my tube ticket ($8.02) and a cup of coffee ($3.46), I realized I was going to need some help. I called Donald Olson, author of Frommer's London From $90 a Day, who immediately conceded that the premise of his book was absurd. "The previous edition was $75 a day, but when I went to London last year I told the publisher $75 a day is impossible. They said...
...yearning to see faraway places and the fear of visiting them alone seem to be universal human traits. Whenever travel writer Arthur Frommer gives a lecture and opens the floor to questions, a woman inevitably raises her hand and asks whether a female can safely travel by herself. "I always notice that all the men are leaning forward to catch the answer too," says Frommer. His verdict, for all concerned: an emphatic...