Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
After two months and 10,000 miles of travel in the U.S., chubby Geoffrey Crowther, editor of London's famed Economist (TIME, Feb. 2), found the U.S. state of mind very different from 1929, when he had made his first visit. Then, wrote Crowther in This Week magazine, "everybody you met . . . was sure that American business had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity. Now the mood is very different. Business is very good, certainly, but in every smoking room you are told the reasons why it can't stay that...
Millard Sheets's watercolors look a little like illustrations for a travel folder, but they have a dash about them, and unmistakable crowd-appeal. Hollywood's art lovers, from the Edward G. Robinsons to the Johnny Mercers, turned out in style one night last week to open Sheets's new show: views of Mexican mountains and market places whipped up from sketches he had made on a three-week tour in January. Highballs in hand (it was that kind of opening), the stars rubbed elbows with local critics and museum directors...
...games in six days is the schedule facing the team, with a couple of hundred miles of travel between each game thrown in. Coming up first is Johns Hopkins, down in Baltimore on Monday. Then follow contests with the University of Maryland, George Washington University, the University of Delaware, Villanova, and Temple...
...tour, he's not too happy about it, either. The team has been handicapped by a late start in out-of-door practices, and is not as well oriented as some of its opponents. And if lack of practice is not too big a handicap, a week of constant travel, most of it by bus, will not be much of an aid to smooth ball-playing either...