Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Patrick: "We had to get away from the travel-guide idea. We wanted an adult magazine that would tell people more about the world so they could act intelligently when and if they set out to see it. We wanted a book that would inform them in a big, broad way." They had to ditch most of the excursion articles their predecessors had laid away, and convince authors that they didn't have to puff the places they wrote about...
From here on, says Patrick, Holiday will travel first class, pay its authors well. Its first dreamboat assignment recently went to Funnyman S. J. Perelman (Keep It Crisp), now en route to Bali with Artist Albert Hirschfeld. Title of their series: Westward Ha! or, Around the World in Eighty Cliches...
...time son Melvin went to Princeton, the travel bug had ruined him for normal life. Once, in the middle of a lecture, he took a desperate flying leap out of an open window, landed safely on a ladder that he had known was there, and clambered joyfully down-only to find Princeton President Woodrow Wilson awaiting him at the bottom. "Was the lecture very boring, Mr. Hall?" asked Wilson. "Very, sir." The president gave him a friendly smile, and walked...
...articles will present information "on all phases of international student reconstruction, travel, and foreign study activities." Special emphasis will be placed on opportunities for study abroad, summer rehabilitation work, and on relief campaigns such as the current food drive...
Always prepared to report to you about need, and the relief measures that your contributions make possible, these persons are eager to establish personal contacts between students and members of the faculty by means of correspondence of travel when possible...