Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He is no longer a novelist, but he is everything else-a critic who writes a knowing account of royal mistresses, an avid traveler whose "escapes" abroad produce delightful travelogues, a father who often yearns for solitude. He is also drinking more than he used to, as a result of...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and...
Another traveler, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell, who had run into the ambassador in Detroit, volunteered a typical American appraisal. "Everyone will respect him for his earnestness and sincerity," Governor Caldwell said, but he thought Sir Oliver would be a hard man to get to know.
In the big cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as...
Others who backed the winner were Allison Danzig, New York Times; Dave Egan, Boston Record; John Lardner, Newsweek; Vern Miller, Boston Globe; Arthur Sampson, Boston Herald; Arthur Siegel, Boston Traveler; and Frank Waldman, Christian Science Monitor.