Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...staff of assistants. To U. S. watchers from afar, uncertain as to the object of his mission (although President Roosevelt had said that it was only to gather information), in doubt as to whom he could see, what he would hear, skeptical of what he could accomplish, the journey of Sumner Welles was less a continued story of diplomatic progress than a series of vivid scenes, puzzling as stills from a movie whose story is not known...
Switzerland. In a hotel in Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...
...five best for five years as have the swimmers. With these things in mind Hal Ulen's boys will be training furiously this week and next, determined that the Kiphuth kids will really have to huff and puff for a while when, next Tuesday evening, the Crimson tankmen journey to the Payne Whitney Gymnasium's Exhibition Pool...
...convincing. Robert Young fares less well as a romantic hero, a Harvard man who ran away from college to paint Indians, and who can make fifteen miles a day with Rogers' Rangers even though his stomach is plugged with a bullet. But even so, it's a fascinating journey with the Rangers, watching them form a human chain across the rapids, and burn and slaughter a village of Indians. Many of the outdoor shots are breathtaking in their Technicolored beauty, and the art of Spencer Tracy brings a credible human being into eventful, and thrilling, contact with the wilderness...