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...that would have marked him for elimination if he had ever fallen into Gestapo hands); it was an instant success, and over the years was followed by "Insides" on Asia, Latin America, the U.S., Africa and Russia. Some critics scoffed at him us "the Book-of-the-Month-Club Marco Polo," but many others regarded his works as journalistic tours de force, exhaustive in research, penetrating in judgment. Through it all, he could say that he "would give all those 'Insides' to have written one good short story." The closest he came was in 1949, after...
...describes his leisurely trek lastyear from Paris to Bangkok. Leisurely, in fact, is the only way to see Asia on a budget, Chu chirps. "Travelers planning to breeze through Asia should stay on their plane with a copy of Marco Polo...
Sinkiang is accustomed to trouble. A sparsely populated land of towering, snow-capped peaks and arid deserts, it is the fought-over gateway between Central Asia and the east. Marco Polo passed through Sinkiang on his way to China. So did other traders who carried Asia's luxuries to Europe. Chinese, Tibetans, Mongols and Turks have all left their mark...
SCATTERING the ever-present pigeons before them, stocky Bavarians strode across the Piazza San Marco, stopping to admire the lofty 11th century basilica, where Christian knights knelt in prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel...
FORTY CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people always say they want to see in order to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a handsome lad almost half...