Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRAVEL INCOGNITO (244 pp.) - Ludwig Bemelmans - Little, Brown...
...Travel Incognito, Bemelmans adopts the cognomen of Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria. The title is pressed on him by his good friend, the Comte de St. Cucuface. "You must take full advantage of your title," Cucuface tells Prince Bemelmans. "You are now no longer a tourist to be pushed about. You are the one to do the pushing. You will give bad tips and be better served than anyone else. You must not pay your bills and shopkeepers will swear that you are indeed a real prince...
...seal off the roads leading out of the city. Soviet guards barred U.S. and British military police patrols from the highways connecting isolated West Berlin and West Germany-but did not stop the vital supply traffic itself on the Autobahn. "On June 1," came an official East German announcement, "travel in the German Democratic [i.e., Communist] Republic will be permitted only to those who have personal identification issued by the German Democratic Republic...
...what nonmaterial, saucerlike object can move quickly, silently, and in violent zigzags? One such thing is a spot of light. It is easy to swing the beam of a searchlight (across high clouds, for instance) and make its bright spot seem to travel at many thousand m.p.h. The spot of light moves silently and it can change direction as abruptly as any saucer...
...Painter Yeats's mind, and he takes his subjects from Ireland's mythology, her countryside and cluttered city streets. His colors come from the purple-brown of Irish bogs, the emeralds and slate greys of Irish seas, the blues of the hills and heather. "An artist may travel the world and paint every imaginable scene," he said once, "but he will never succeed in painting a masterpiece until he takes it out of his own country, out of the place where he was born & bred, the place that is in his blood." The pictures in the Manhattan show...