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Article: ENDLESSLY FASCINATED BY NEW YORK TRAVEL WRITER JAN MORRIS HAS SEEN ALL THE GREAT CITIES, BUT GOTHAM IS STILL SPECIAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1987
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Years ago, the Welsh traveler Jan Morris determined she'd
see all the world's great cities.
Cheekier still, she actually succeeded.
Yet to this day the author of "Manhattan '45," a cheerful
paean to New York at its zenith, remembers vividly the night she
first saw the marvelous island of Gotham.
The year was 1953.
She'd arrived at Pier 90 on the Mauritania -- "the ship whose
funnels were too close together" -- and at 6:01 the next evening
she was scheduled to board the Twentieth Century Limited to
Chicago. But what Morris really wanted was the lights. She'd
always dreamt of those lights, heard about the gleaming city across
the water. So now, with only a few hours to explore, she ...