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...guidebook is a successor to two earlier University handbooks on American history. The first, published in 1896 by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing, covered the period 1492-1865. In 1912, Hart and Channing, with Frederick Jackson Turner, revised this work to 1910, under the title, "Guide to the Study and Teaching of American History...
...Lighter Side," syndicated to six other U.S. dailies by the New York Herald Tribune, takes the informal measure of a wide range of American travelers abroad from Paul Hoffman, Jim Farley and Henry Ford II to "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom, Ernest Hemingway and Lana Turner. And Buchwald's lighthearted guidebook, Paris After Dark, which has sold more than 60,000 copies, is one of the best sources of information for Americans on Paris restaurants and night life...
...Athens, Pausanias tells about the heroes' graves. Since many of his descriptions have proved accurate as clues for archaeologists in the past, Mylonas was convinced that if he dug long enough at Eleusis. he would find the graves just where Pausanias put them when he wrote his ancient guidebook...
Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...
...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...