Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...launching of propaganda to pro mote travel to the San Francisco Exposition...
...story of two lately arrived peon newlyweds, enticed to Manhattan by a scatterbrained female gringo travel writer, Fiesta In Manhattan centres on their bungling efforts to adapt themselves to the cramped, precarious life of the barrio, their worse bungling when Juan tries to raise passage money home by peddling marijuana. Living conditions in the barrio, the natives' desperate shifts to make a living, their political tempers, the quarter's underworld are documented by Author Kaufman from firsthand study...
...contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture as to bring considerable comment--not only because of its grand scale, but also because of its ingenuity of arrangement and high artistic quality...
Died. Charles Richard Crane, 80, world traveler, onetime president of Chicago's potent Crane Co. (plumbing), onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk...
...first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories, travel books, reference books). Its setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette...