Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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First Person is a lavishly printed and quite excellent little journal of "Travel, Memoirs & Humor" whose first issue is at present on the Cambridge newsstands. Its contents are diverse, but its odd collocation of themes comes as a refreshing exception to the formalism of the contents of many American magazines, from the little reviews to the Saturday Evening Post...
Goody has not yet worked out all the details of his trip. He is still waiting for a visa to travel in the Soviet Union, but, he declared, the visa will almost certainly be granted...
...Steven Derounian of New York and Thomas J. Love, Massachusetts Democrat, called for an investigation. FAA inspectors sealed the four engines under water before hauling them up for study. Indiana's Democratic Senator Vance Hartke called again for grounding the Electra. Egged on by nervous newsmen who must travel with him on his campaign, Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson switched from an Electra to a Convair. Rumors spread that many large companies were forbidding their employees to fly in Electras. Just two days after the accident at Boston, Eastern's Electra travel...
Promoted to features editor, Templeton brightened the Star's travel, gardening and real estate sections-and even spruced up the church page. He still goes to church himself, but irregularly. He also has a new wife: CBC Thrush Sylvia Murphy, a divorcee whom he married 19 months ago. As news boss, ex-Evangelist Templeton has set a high goal for the Star: "We are not after sensation. We want to make the Star the most responsible and brightest newspaper in Canada...
...headlong clatter of A Number of Things is occasionally slowed by pages of travel-book writing, and the jokes are sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted...