Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who have not yet found out, Mr. Thurber writes little pieces about parlor games, hobbies and travel, but most of the time he writes about himself. Thurber Country is the latest in a long and proud line of collections of these little pieces, and even by Thurber standards, it is good one. New Yorker readers will find a majority of the articles familiar, but certainly no less delightful for a second, or even a third or fourth reading. Among the seven selections never before published in the United States is a short discourse on the Thurberian approach to word...
...Kirk asks her to go to bed with him. She says no. Thereupon Kirk does what the script seems to think any red-blooded American boy would do: he asks her to marry him. After that, they do a lot of touring around Paris while the camera takes travel-poster shots. In the end, Kirk's C.O. refuses to approve his marriage to the girl, and though Kirk fakes a marriage permit, he is picked up by MPs on the way to his wedding. Moviegoers, who have waited 108 minutes for something to happen, may be ready to follow...
APRIL-Bon Voyage. In St. Peter," Minn., the weekly Herald ran a classified ad: "WANTED: Man to handle dynamite. Must be prepared to travel unexpectedly...
Walks at Midnight. Sitting as Chief Justice of the U.S. is a basic change in Earl Warren's life. A hearty, friendly man who likes people, Warren used to travel up and down the State of California, meeting people, handling dozens of administrative problems through a large staff. Suddenly, he was behind a desk in an office full of law books. Warren found that he liked the new opportunity for reflection and analysis. To offset the confining nature of his work, the Chief Justice often walks for two or three miles before going to bed about midnight...
...appearance of the first four volumes of the British Pelican History of Art, a 48-volume project. The other was Andre Malraux's The Voices of Silence, a brilliant if tantalizingly subjective musing on art through the ages. In a year when books on flying saucers and interplanetary travel became commonplace, Jonathan Norton Leonard brought the subject back to earth in his informed and sensible Flight into Space. For humor it was a sad, unsmiling period. Thurber Country, a book of characteristic sketches, was James Thurber at his second best, but standing alone in a shrinking field...