Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, divorce in Britain was considered not only in poor taste but political suicide. Adultery was the only legal ground, and novelists made almost a standard episode out of the husband's shamefaced trip to the seaside resort of Brighton accompanied by a hired "corespondent." There was the train trip down trailed by two hired detectives who carefully avoided speaking to him; the registration in the cold hotel as "Mr. and Mrs."; the embarrassed moments in the double bed beside the girl in a nightgown, he reading a newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid...
Hellion in Paradise. Zoologist Gerald Durrell was ten years old in 1934 when his family settled on the Ionian resort island of Corfu for what proved to be a five-year stay. Fending off a swarm of taxi drivers, the Durrells met their own personal "Zorba the Greek" when a swarthy islander named Spiro shouted to the beleaguered family, "Hoy! Whys donts you have someones who can talks your own language?" Neither Spiro nor the local hotel guide could quite grasp certain Anglo-Saxon eccentricities ("But Madame, what for you want a bathroom? Have...
...Dunster Dunces apparently do not wish comparison with the Whiffenpoofs, and so wisely resort to unique material; this helps. But the record is, on the whole, a series of commendable, quite mediocre sallies onto unsure ground; they hopefully may improve with dear, precious time...
...Arkansas, are glad to have a Rockefeller-a very rich (also civic-minded) newcomer in our midst [March 11]. Ark is a poor state because it is all, or more than half of it, mountains. Beautiful, but too cold for a winter resort and too hot for a summer resort. There is rich rice and cotton land in the Ark River Valley, but we can't get money to develop our big river and get the water freight which is a must for big industry now. This is just to explain that while we welcome Mr. Winthrop Rockefeller...
Prayers in the Mosques. The news reached Teheran just as the Shah, a stout friend of the U.S., was conferring at a Caspian resort with Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with full military honors, Iran's government set the diplomatic wires humming with apologies and promises of an all-out mobilization to find the missing Anita Carroll. Iranian navy boats patrolled the Gulf of Oman to head off bandit attempts to escape into Pakistan. On the other side...