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Need & Notion. $5 a Day is the creature of a 32-year-old Manhattan attorney, Arthur Frommer. Frommer got into the travel business as a pfc attached to U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany. "Sensing a need," he assembled and published G.I.'s Guide to Travelling in Europe in 1955, based largely on his own legwork. Now, companion $5 a Day volumes by Frommer and his associates survey New York, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Los Angeles-San Francisco-Las Vegas (in one volume). Last year Frommer finally and reluctantly gave up his law practice...
...Frommer ground rules are spartan. Though $5 a day covers a room and three meals, exclusive of transportation costs, a frugal tourist is reminded: 1) "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while...
...When Frommer and his actress wife travel, they still go by the book. Their favorite hotel in Nice is "a place where we eat breakfast in the kitchen in bathrobe and slippers. And the guests are French." Frommer's prose often pauses for such provocative asides as "Here the beds are somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead...
Readers readily second Frommer's theory that luxury hotels with English-speaking staffs "and a branch of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in the lobby" tend to insulate Americans from the very Europe they came to see. Frommer receives 1,000 testimonials each year from a list of tight-fisted correspondents that includes schoolteachers, ministers, engineers and architects. But some of the raves are qualified...
...will also perform Schumann's "Fuge on Bach," Liszt's "Fantasy and Fuge on Bach," and Brahm's "O Gott, due Frommer Gott," and "Schumcke Dich, O Liebe Seele...