Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special attractions are The Lovers of Verona at Cinema 48, between Sixth and Seventh, and The Marx Brothers in Monkey Business and Horsefeathers, at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, near 12th Street. The hilarious Born Yesterday with Judy Holiday is at the Victoria...
Some British moppets will soon be leaving for a holiday in Switzerland. A Swiss editor recently printed a reproduction of one of Winston Churchill's copyrighted paintings and sent off a check for ?2. "the usual fee paid to Swiss artists." An answer came from Churchill's lawyers: "insufficient." The editor then offered to pay Churchill ?200 if he would use the money to give underprivileged youngsters a Swiss holiday. Churchill agreed...
Magazines have long suspected something like this was stirring; they have been getting an extraordinary response to diet stories. Look was deluged with thousands of inquiries on its "basic American diet" in January. Holiday served up its eat-all-you-want Du Pont diet (meat three times daily, plenty of fat, no sugar, salt or flour, half an hour prebreakfast walk) last summer, reprinted it last month and claimed the largest response "to a food story in magazine history...
...with the air of a frightened and maligned owl, Young took the stand to deny all. He complained that he had done nothing to merit the Senators' charges, that as a result of what the committee had said, the press was distorting his private life into "a Roman holiday to amuse the readers." His troubles, sighed Young, stemmed only from the fact that "I was born in Missouri and I know certain people from my home state...
Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...