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...flaring rationalization that "one should live at the center of experience of his time," he hit the road. He loafed, worked on road gangs, on farms, on beaches as a lifeguard. He published stories in Scribner's Magazine and the American Mercury. Following his Steinbeck period came his Hemingway period. Herridge enlisted in the Army Air Corps, flew missions over southern Europe. After the war, he padded around Greenwich Village, wandered into television ten years ago to beachcomb for money...
...rising in the Scandinavian countries. Copenhagen's Royal Hotel (double rooms start at $9) will be ready in July. In Spain, hotel rates are government-controlled, and the best, such as Madrid's Ritz and Palace, start at $12 per night for two. (Old Spanish Traveler Ernest Hemingway always stays at the Casa de Suecia.) Accommodations in Greece are better this year. The King's Palace Hotel in Athens, which opened last November, is first class. The Aegean isles of Paros and Rhodes will have more facilities ($5 to $6 per double room), and the new highway...
...divert attention from the seizure of the only important anti-Castro newspaper in Cuba (see PRESS). But if the bearded Castro himself really thought his country in peril, he hardly showed it. He escorted Indonesia's President Sukarno around the island, then took ship for the "Hemingway Tourney.'' Castro's impressive catch: a 46-lb. sailfish and three marlin weighing...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The series dramatizing the works of Ernest Hemingway continues with The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people." With Richard Conte, Eleanor Parker...
Died. Ellery Sedgwick, 88. editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1908 to 1938, in whose regime circulation rose from 10,000 to 125,000; of a heart attack; in Washington. Sedgwick prided himself on the young authors, e.g., Hemingway, whom he introduced to the public, but he missed on some. Robert Frost recalls his rejection: "We are very sorry but at the moment the Atlantic has no place for vigorous verse." A longtime liberal who used the columns of the Atlantic to champion Sacco and Vanzetti, Sedgwick faced a torrent of criticism in 1938 when he wrote articles...