Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...
...Smiling Epilogue. Some old versions of the story end there, but Mann has found in others the makings of a remarkable epilogue: Sibylla makes a journey to Rome to beg the new Pope for absolution. The two pretend not to recognize each other, but Sibylla at last bursts out: "Father of my children, ever-beloved child!" Each finally acknowledges that even when they first met they knew each other as mother...
...less successful in dramatizing the story of how the hero finds his way, through a darkness of self-pity and the patronizing pity of others, to inner strength and security. Without the unpretty toughness and raw emotional power of The Men, the film moves slickly on a sentimental journey past soap-opera landmarks. Veteran Kennedy must choose between living supinely on a sinecure provided by his prewar fiancee's wealthy father, or striking out independently with the help of a selfless girl (Peggy Dow) who loves him. The choice, and the plot maneuverings leading up to it, are never...
...TIME, Oct. 23), hopes to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower cabinet? He wasn't saying. But Dewey's Asiatic tour is taking him to Japan, Korea, Formosa, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates, in Tom Dewey's pocket, make a nice talking point...
...Paris one night last week, President Vincent Auriol of France sat down to a banquet of boeuf bouquetière in honor of a special group of guests: 41 French schoolboys who had some tales to tell. A few months before, each boy had set out on a solitary journey of thousands of miles with about $45 for the whole trip. For these winners of France's oddest scholarships, dinner with M. Auriol was just one in a long series of adventures...