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TIMETABLE FOR TRAMPS-Tlbor Koeves -Houghfon Mifflin ($3).
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art...
Timetable for Tramps contains excellent pages on New York City, Marseille, London, post-War Paris, and on the habits of those who live there. Well aware that, thanks to war, most of what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In...
In the summer Professor Conklin goes to Woods Hole, Mass., which has the best-equipped laboratory of marine biology in the world. In Princeton, he gets up every morning at six. Two mornings a week he tramps, in good weather and bad, the three-quarter mile from his red-roofed...
Off the coast of Palestine the weirdest and most wretched drama of the homeless was taking place. There, outside the three-mile limit, a collection of jampacked, unseaworthy little tubs lay waiting for a chance to run cargoes of permitless refugees ashore. There were Greek sailing schooners like the Panagiya...