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Travelers to Venice last week found themselves in the midst of a major celebration honoring history's most successful travel-book author-Marco Polo. For the 700th anniversary of his birth, the city which once scoffed at his fantastic tales of the Orient* gathered from eleven countries (not including Red China) an exhibition of 951 pieces of Chinese art that would have awed even Marco Polo himself...
...Lindbergh's Pulitzer prizewinning bestseller, The Spirit of St. Louis, a, Scripps-Howard reporter discovered one reason why Lindbergh turned out to be so fine an autobiographer. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is as able a literary coach as she is a poetaster and travelogist (North to the Orient). Among Lindbergh's hand-written manuscripts, on which he labored through 14 years of war and peace, are many deft bits of guidance, jotted down in Anne's fine script. Advised Anne: "Recognize your style-then keep it. Your own style is what you speak. Imagine...
Demoted Cardinal. A deal with Rome's Thetis Films (makers of TV's Orient Express and International Police) has made it possible for Lerner to film the series in Italy. But the idea is his own and came to him one morning when he remarked to his wife, "Hey, how come there are no swashbucklers on TV?" A year ago, he picked up a copy of Dumas' The Three Musketeers ("It was lying around the house") and decided D'Artagnan was his man. Of course, Lerner, who has produced three B movies and a dozen episodes...
...many Schmidts had become Smiths, and, both Janowicz-Jones and Schmidt-Smiths were changed to the British total. Each nation was then given a percentage of the total quota--150,000--proportionate to the percentage of its "immigrants" than a part of the white population. This excludes the Orient, limited arbitrarily, and the western hemisphere, which has no quotas...
...Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health, yesterday announced a plan for an exchange of students between the School of Public Health and several institutions in the Orient. His plan will be submitted in the near future for approval to the international committee of the School and then to the whole faculty...