Word: maying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American is threatening to cut worldwide fares on its own next summer, and BOAC is ready to extend lower fares to British colonies around the world. IATA has until the end of March to hammer out a compromise. If it fails, the organization may break up as fares fall...
...many letters (each personally answered) poured in to Ireland's Whiskey Distillers that Gossage claims to have "established an important new industry in Ireland-writing letters to America." Says he: "If you write in and say you don't drink Irish, we may send your name to a man who does. It will be like the buddy system, like boy scouts helping each other to swim." Irish whiskey sales in the U.S.? Up 60% in the first nine months of this year, to 30,000 cases...
...like Gigi, was adapted from Colette by Anita Loos. As Gigi hoisted a young girl, Audrey Hepburn, into the limelight, Chéri may hoist a young man, Horst Buchholz. Playing the title role, this European film actor manages-not wholly through ability but through his matinee-idol appearance-to be the most effective part of a generally empty show. He plays the overindulged, sexually precocious, humanly immature son of a pre-World War I grande cocotte, who has brought him up to make a rich marriage...
...superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers may say that this is not the Florence they saw, but Author McCarthy saw it thus, and her city is in the book...
...part. Old Pro Ruark may have been betrayed by a compulsion to be autobiographical. Hero Price follows Author Ruark's trail almost exactly as he grows up in a small North Carolina town (Ruark was born in Wilmington, N.C.) and gets his schooling at Chapel Hill, where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best...