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...England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...
...sort of a floating court of the Medici. When the steamer Renaissance began a leisurely 14-day croisiere de musique off the Côte d'Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both...
TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron was at the tiny fishing village of Porto Ran, 20 miles from Athens, when a small coastal steamer brought the prisoners to the mainland. "On hand to greet them was a crowd of over 2,000 screaming, weeping Athenians," Byron reported. "As the ship was sighted over the horizon, the crowd roared, 'Greece's heroes! Long live democracy! Poison to the E.S.A. dogs!' When the prisoners-journalists, educators, politicians, actors-came down the cargo ramp, thousands of arms hugged them. Many of them were pale and undernourished. They were showered with flowers...
PASS Haiti by. That was the advice given to the passengers on the steamer Medea in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians. Until recently, that is exactly what most potential tourists did -and for good reason. Haiti was the stronghold of the tyrannical Frangois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. During his 14-year regime, thousands of Haitians were executed for real or imagined political opposition, and no one, including foreign tourists, could feel secure from harassment and arbitrary arrest...
Between 1898 and 1910, Shaw, with all the exuberance of a honking Stanley Steamer, was making his belated run toward greatness. Marriage to the well-dowried Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, when he was already 41, relieved him at last of journalism's curse, the deadline. As if illustrating his own theory of the life force, Shaw hurled himself into writing plays. Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra and Major Barbara are among the choicest products of these years. At their dashing best, the letters read like mini-prefaces to the plays, minor skirmishes in the battle against...