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...prototype of the penny-pinching near billionaire is U.S. Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials...
...last year Sutton has toted his tools more than 100,000 miles, most recently to Tahiti, where he dined on raw fish in coconut milk, papaya-banana pudding-and, of course, paregoric. His wife Pat, 24, a former night-club dancer, usually goes along, once traveled abroad six times in six months. Sutton is handsomely rewarded for his peregrinations: from his column, Of All Places, which is syndicated in 35 papers, and from his periodic travelogues for the Saturday Review, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications, he earns some $40,000 a year...
Short of Respectability. Not surprisingly, Sutton and his travel-writing press colleagues are the envy of newsmen on more prosaic beats. Every now and then, Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt pokes his head through the door of Travel Editor Bruce Hamby and inquires: "How does a guy get a job like this?" In the years since World War II, the travel editor has come to play an increasingly important press role. New York Times Travel Editor Paul J. C. Friedlander has a staff of five men and a secretary. Travel supplements proliferate, ranging from the Chicago Tribune, which prints...
...Louis Post-Dispatch lumps its travel section under the catchall division, "Promotion News," and uses great gobs of free publicity copy. Stanton Delaplane, whose travel column is syndicated even more widely than Horace Sutton's, insists on paying his own hotel bills-but demands a 25% commercial discount in the U.S. A CAB ruling prohibits airlines from letting newsmen fly free on scheduled flights, but some travel editors evade the ruling by selling "reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better...
...travel writers defend freeloading on the ground that it is a well-established journalistic practice. Says Horace Sutton: "Since when have you seen a theater critic like Brooks Atkinson scrambling in line to buy a seat for the second balcony?" Sutton, with far more justification than most, maintains that no one tells him what to write. But others of his genre admit to an abiding fact of the travel editor's life. "Half of my job is public relations," says the San Francisco Chronicle's Polly Noyes. "Even for the agencies I don't like...