Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polished and primped from stem to stern, she sailed from Southampton last week with 2,200 paying passengers aboard (fares: first class, $365 and up; tourist, $165). Number one among the notables: U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. At Commodore Sir James Bissett's invitation, Molotov took the liner's helm for a few minutes, veered two degrees off course -to the left...
...that guards the Mount Auburn Street approaches to the Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife and mused, "I wonder what church that...
Only businessmen, hunters, prospectors and settlers could use it. But now it had gasoline stations (the longest gasless gap: 200 miles). Everyone hoped it would be open for tourist travel next year...
...Claude-Henri Grignon, 52-year-old writer-producer. When he drops his pen, he becomes the quarrelsome mayor of Ste. Adele, in the Laurentians north of Montreal. There he bosses his 1,200 constituents, fights resort hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then he returned to his birthplace...
...Turkey, a wealthy American tourist, recoiling from the native bread, which was flat as a bathmat, was overjoyed at the sight of crisp, crusted, American-style loaves. He sought out the baker, found he was a Protestant missionary named Cyrus Hamlin. Missionary Hamlin convinced wealthy, grateful Tourist Christopher Robert that the Turks needed education even more than better bread, talked him into endowing the first U.S. college in the Near East...