Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened to Halliday on his journey East is the burden of Budd Schulberg's third and best novel, The Disenchanted. As in What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall, Schulberg has borrowed the handy, ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
Neutral Field. But that night, as he prepared for the last, 2,300-mile leg of his journey to Wake Island, an odd atmosphere of expectancy and something very like tension settled over the expedition. Truman and MacArthur-who had never set eyes on each other, and who had clashed publicly over U.S. policy in Formosa (TIME, Sept. 4)-seemed, at the moment, like the sovereign rulers of separate states, approaching a neutral field with panoplied retainers to make talk and watch each other's eyes...
Pipe Session. At 7:45 the two men emerged into the tropic sunshine and made another rattling journey, this time to Wake's new coral-pink administration building. Their advisers-General Omar Bradley, Frank Pace, Admiral Radford, Philip Jessup and Averell Harriman for the President, Korean Ambassador John Muccio and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney for MacArthur-were waiting. The President suggested that it was no weather for coats. Said MacArthur, pulling out a pipe: "Do you mind if I smoke, Mr. President...
...position, our resources, our interest and our ideals are such that whatever the journey that lies ahead in world affairs, we must take it with you. We hope that you will realize that it is occasionally difficult for us to keep up the pace . . . maintained by a great, long-striding power. There may even be occasional moments when the course may seem to us to be a trifle zigzag, but we know in Canada that the general direction is right and the goal is good...
According to present plans, the Band will journey to Soldiers Field at 9 a.m. for drill practice. The Cornell musicians will join the Crimson for the traditional noon march through the Square, a joint meeting of the bands' officers decided last evening...