Word: islands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention has been called to an article that appeared in TIME on Aug. 3 in which you state that Norman Douglas was asked to leave Capri by the police. You casually defame the memory of a great man, who not only was never asked to leave the island but was appointed an honorary citizen. He was buried on Capri with full civic honors...
Dragging in a mention of Norman Douglas adds nothing of value to a story on tourism in Capri. Norman Douglas was revered, honored and loved by the people of Capri: he was one of only two free citizens of that island. (Benedetto Croce was the other.) He was liberal, progressive, scholarly and impeccably well-mannered in his writings and his regard for people and their right to enjoy the "pursuit of happiness...
...roar of auto traffic came down from New York's Triborough Bridge; airliners thundered overhead on the way out of La Guardia Airport; the loudspeakers squealed and squawked. But at Randall's Island, the East River playground used mostly for track meets and soccer matches, the disturbances did not seem to matter. In three days, 60,000 fans packed the stadium for the fourth annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival, and made it the world's biggest jam session, displacing even the famed Newport Festival. The jazz buffs had come (at up to $4.50 a ticket...
...PRACTICE LANDINGS with two engines cut have been ruled out by Federal Aviation Agency in hopes of preventing crashes similar to first fatal Boeing 707 accident (five men dead) last month on Long Island. Under new ruling, airline crews may cut two engines only at altitude...
...Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk of Ginsberg reading Ginsberg, including...