Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display were 150 boats ranging from a 5-ft., $20 play boat to a 53-ft., $31,000 motor yacht. But the boats that attracted most attention were the 30-to-40-ft., $3,000-to-$ 10,000 cruisers, comfortable enough for week-end sporting or water-gypsy travel...
...best to be said for Director Garnett's travel contributions is that, sprinkled through the narrative along with the antics of a highly entertaining set of minor characters, they serve to punctuate Miss Parker's jokes. Best minor part: Ralph Bellamy-who impersonated Christ in Destination Unknown, also directed by Tay Garnett-as Sam Wye's over-diligent assistant...
...TRAVEL & ADVENTURE...
Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...
...first eleven months of 1938, U. S. publishers brought out 9,949 new titles. There were 1,590 new novels, 606 biographies and autobiographies, 329 travel books, 1,158 new titles in the field of belles-lettres which includes poetry and criticism, 764 titles which come under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of books -good, bad, ponderous, specialized, dull, exciting, original, confused, confusing-a few stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crowd by their wide popular appeal, a few because...