Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No cloud-hung peak, no yawning gorge, no waterfall's white and thundering precipice can astound the eye like New York. No traveler is ever prepared for it. The Big City is the work of man.
For the past seven years, John has been exploring his own legend-spawning life, in an autobiography published piecemeal in Cyril Connolly's highbrow British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known...
Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control...
¶ The Boston Traveler's Frank Gushing, for outstanding news photography. The picture: a boy gunman using another youth as a shield (TIME, July 7).
One Worldling. No crusader, but an able newsman on a left-of-center course, is smooth, bespectacled Joe Barnes, 41, brother of Howard Barnes, the Trib's drama critic. (A third brother, Bernard, is assistant to TIME'S Vice President Howard Black.) A professor's son who...