Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, Ralph, as TIME'S Mexico City bureau chiefs have invariably called him, made his first trip to Manhattan. On his return to more serene surroundings, he jotted down and sent along his impressions of his somewhat frantic visit. Wrote Delgado...
Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
...chancellery in East Berlin, was told, "You move, I shoot." ("Curiously," Stevenson later remarked, "I didn't move.") Because a member of Stevenson's party took pictures of him amid the rubble, they were held at gunpoint by seven policemen for half an hour while resisting a trip down to headquarters. The Communists, who did not know who Stevenson was, finally released the group after seizing the exposed film. Said Stevenson of the incident: "Fascinating...
Captain Jan was grilled by British intelligence; he agreed to broadcast behind the Iron Curtain on the BBC's Polish program; then he called a press conference. He told of the famous trip from New York in 1949, when Communist Gerhart Eisler was stowed aboard and delivered to Poland; discussed how he and all aboard were under constant order of a political officer named Peter Szemiel, so that his own duty was "strictly navigational-I was only the driver." He said that 500 officers and men had recently been purged from the Polish merchant navy. He himself had never...
...Make a Deal?" On a lucky day, an organ grinder may make as much as 20 pesos from such notoriously open-handed patrons as drunks, lovers and tourists. But his steadiest customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen...