Mayflower Books

Ir^trodiictioi^TTMERICA'S Federal capital, Washington, D.C., is undoubtedly among the more pleasant of the world's^capital cities: broad, tree-lined streets and avenues, plenty of parks and open spaces, not too many dominant and insistent giant office blocks to spoil the proportions of the...

ONE The night sky was sodden with low-hanging clouds. Cold drizzle coated the sidewalks with moisture, gave a halo to the street lights and caused the tyres of passing automobiles to hiss over wet road surface. Most of the buildings in the local shopping centre were dark, but on the corner the...

New York is ¦ The Empire State left; the statue of Liberty right; golden Prometheus in Rockefeller Center Plaza, backed by the l towering fa^ade of the R.CA. Building above; \ mighty Atlas shouldering the world on Fifth I Avenue below, and the city's familiar crowded Skyline overleaf.

What more is there to say about the girl 'sentenced to martyrdom and sainthood in a show-biz world that cries too easily but shies from the true cause of the tears that Judy has been crying from Andy Hardy days onward9?1 Her life has been described in detail in hundreds of articles and numerous...

IT is often said that Los Angeles is a city without a real heart, that central area in every large city in which its government, entertainment quarter, shopping areas and so on are contained: the hub which is the focus point of the city's life. There is some truth to this view, for Los Angeles...