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...Carlsbad, N. Mex.3 which sends new teachers a string of personal letters from the school superintendent and the teachers' association before they start to work, helps them find places to live, and provides a guidebook on the city and its school system...
...Father" Robinson, orthodox resident of an English version Andy Hardy hometown. He writes traveller's postcards, variants on the mundane, before he leaves on vacation; at the last minute he exchanges a Mediterranean cruise for the perennial seaside fortnight, and on his return relates Mediterranean tales from a guidebook. The situational humor--when a dog tramples his pampered begonias and a prospective son-in-law breaks his clock--is unfortunately more exercise and less amusing than Robinson's commentaries on his vacation, his newspaper, and his wife...
...Champs Elysées a pert little streetwalker, old enough to remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...
...apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall. "My grandfather," answered His Grace, the loth Duke of Marlborough, beaming amiably above his Glen plaid jacket and regimental tie. A village...
...Please Enter In." For quieter moments, Bangkok offers quieter delights. "Turn to your right," says the city's popular guidebook, Black Shadow, after listing the theaters, restaurants, nightclubs and sporting events in town, "and you will at last catch sight of the one attractive house standing magnificently in a narrow passage. This is the place of your destination. Please enter in. These young and charming girls has each her own style of love. She is, however, at your service. Charges: Ticals 50.00 and 100.00. There are many more beautiful ones but with higher charges." The visitor, diffident at entering...