Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MORNING JOURNEY (345 pp.)-James Hilton-Little, Brown...
...Morning Journey is totally unlike Novelist Hilton's big hits, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. It is the story of a stage-struck Irish colleen named Carey, who pines for stardom and is raised to it by a producer who is a theatrical genius. He also marries Carey, but, like all geniuses in fiction, is too much of a heel to toe the married line. So Carey swaps him for a likable millionaire-only to conclude, after a couple of hundred pages of tightly packed pondering, that the path of genius, however rough, is preferable to Wall Street...
...request came from a 21-year-old electro-technician and a 23-year-old accountant in Haarlem, who pointed out that they had "read something about the journey to the moon" and asked for immediate reservations...
...will ask you to send us two tickets, so that we know that our places are reserved whenever the journey is possible...
Last week, as the U.S. aviation industry celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first flight, a Capital Airlines 300-m.p.h. Constellation made a sentimental journey with 38 passengers over the same 237-mile route. The flight symbolized the growth of aviation to a billion-dollar U.S. enterprise, with 1,542 planes which fan out over 170,000 miles of routes to every corner of the nation. At peak flying hours (5 to 6 p.m.), an average of more than 500 scheduled airliners is aloft, with some 11,000 people aboard. Day & night there...