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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What discrimination there was seemed mainly social. Rooming houses openly proclaimed "No colored." Hotels were "full" to Negro applicants. Restaurants often refused to serve them, some pubs segregated Negroes in one room, whites in another. Dance halls all over the Midlands would quietly bar any Negro who did not bring his own partner. Said a ballroom manager: "We're not against them, we just don't want any trouble...
Germans this year will spend an estimated $400 million on their European travels. About 30% of them are students who go by bicycle, motorcycle or hitchhike, and often camp out. Another 60% are the middleclass, ranging from teachers to small businessmen, who travel by car, railroad or bus and live in small hotels and boarding houses. The remaining 10% are the wealthy, the Ruhr industrialists and Frankfurt bankers, who make their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French...
...better everywhere, suggests Bunte Illustrierte, never to talk about the war. But, surprisingly, reports Bunte Illustrierte, it is in neutral Sweden that the Germans "generally meet with mistrust." The old, often-repeated tale of German tourists shocking their hosts by saying they had "come to love" a place while serving as occupiers during the war, is no longer widespread. Tourist marks, like tourist dollars, are much too valued...
...fancy prizes that looked so fine before the camera have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had signed away their prizes before going on, undertaking to accept their TV winnings for far less cash than their real value. The best defense that network officials and their spring-legged pressagents could make in private was that the quiz shows were not really crooked but only hippodromed, like a wrestling...
...known character in its raffish staff of olden days was its longtime (1925-37) editor, a retired army captain named Chris Towler. From writing for a dog magazine, Towler learned a deft touch with copy, prodded staffers into developing a brisk, racy style. But he gambled heavily and badly, often forced his reporters to open accounts at banks where he was overdrawn in order to get a supply of blank checks...