Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers captured while fighting in Korea. He brought back some hope for their release and some insight into the tortuous mind of their chief jailer, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. In time, the gain may compensate for the loss to the U.N.'s prestige by his journey, which was heralded in Asia as a "great diplomatic victory for Red China." Hong Kong's anti-Communist newspaper Sing Tao Man Pao commented bitterly: "Hammarskjold went as a lung [dragon] but came back as a chung [worm...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
After he took his seat in the House of Lords and, at 24, published Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (poetic impressions of a Continental journey), Byron became overnight Britain's most talked-of poet...
...last week, the telephone awakened Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations. An aide told him that the Chinese Communists would welcome him to their capital. Delighted, Hammarskjold got ready for a journey on which he will seek the release of 15 Americans captured during the Korean...
...JOURNEY TO THE FAR AMAZON, by Alain Gheerbrant. This Frenchman's account of a journey into the Amazon jungles was probably the most exciting and certainly the best written adventure book of the year...