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...years since his first Guide was published, "the normal Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Middletown, U.S.A." to whom it is frankly addressed, have come to regard Temple Fielding as a sort of traveler's Dr. Spock?a role he relishes. "If Temp has a cause, and I think he has one," says his chief assistant, Joe Raff, "it is to ease the passage of the traveler, to assuage his doubts...
Temple Fielding has been called "a modern Baedeker." The description fits only in the sense that Karl Baedeker dominated the guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
...makes sure that their days are full. For Mrs. Smith he proposes a shopping tour. And what is Mr. Smith to do while the Missus is sacking the stores? Wink, wink. The girls of The Netherlands "take the honors in the firecracker department," Fielding whispers, and in London, ladies of the afternoon can be located by consulting the "business cards" on street bulletin boards. He defends his genteel pandering on the principle that "people's lives are their private lives. A husband and wife come to Europe, they're together, together, together. They're in a rut. The wife decides...
Table for Mr. Parker...
Late last night, a sharp-eyed local youngster claimed that Truman was in Independence. The youth reported that he had seen Truman practicing short bows in front of his bedroom mirror, repeating "Thank you, Mr. Pusey, thank you. Give 'em hell...