THE DETROIT

Friday, May 18, 1973

NEWS

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George Pierrot, Who Outstrips Benjamin of Tudela as Traveler

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By CHARLOTTE DUBIN

Working E, Wife Entitled to Alimony

There can't be a more
familiar face on television:
the round. bespectacled vis-
age encircled by a wreath of
white hair that belongs to
George Pierrot, globe trotter,
gourmand, lover of Detroit
and all-round good fellow.
But there is another side
to Pierrot — to be sure, a
brief moment in the chron-
icle of this colorful chap who
has brought the -world to
thousands of armchair tra-
velers via th,?, 40-year-old
World Adventure Series and
the daily TV show that bears
his name.

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has ruled th7tt alimony must have to pay alimony.
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The ruling was made in a
case involving a childless
couple, both working aca-
demicians. For over a year
the husband had refused
both to agree to a divorce
and to pay alimony.
The court ruled that pay-
ment of alimony in a separa-
tion starts as soon as the
court approves a divorce,
even though the husband
does not agree immediately
to the actual divorce.

Pierrot has been to Israel
once. Actually, it was to
Palestine — in 1938, when he
was on a year-long world
trip for his syndicated col-
umn, World Letters, Inc.
Lowell Thomas got him the
job.
He remembers staying at
the Austrian Hospice on the
Via Dolorosa, within the
walls of the Old City of Jeru-
salem. He started out at the
King David Hotel, "but that
was outside the walls," and
Pierrot preferred to be where
the action was. He wasn't
disappointed; t h e r e was
GEORGE PIERROT
shooting every night.
"My Arab guide was terri- I During that year of travel,
field I'd be taken for an Pierrot also witnessed the
Englishman and be shot by terror that was engulfing
Germany. He and his anti-
an Arab," said Pierrot.

Pierrot, who is marking
his 75th birthday this year,
was a Zionist long before
Israel /became a state. Like
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estine
Committee, Pierrot
believed — as he said in an Issued by Pierrot
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interview — "that the goals
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Although he admits the de-
tails are hazy, he recalls at-
tending the conference at
Princeton University at
which Da v id Ben-Gurion
spoke on the need for estab-
lishment of the Jewish state.
Pierrot met many prominent
Christian humanists there,
among them Welthy Fisher,
now in her 90s, whose hus-
band was the Methodist
bishop of India. She herself
achieved some note in the
promotion of ed u c a tion
-among the Indians.

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Hitler German guide paid an
unauthorized visit to the
prison camp at Spandau and
managed to get away with
only a "Get the hell out of
here" from the commandant,
said Pierrot.

But he could not write of
it: "I once wrote Germany
was a nation in uniform, and
Michigan, My Algoma."
they held my letter up for a
In it, Pierrot tells why week."
Detroit and Michigan are his
Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait
top choice as a place to live. and Morocco also have been
He includes a complete index on his itinerary ("I was in
of names, addresses and Kuwait when they brought in
phone numbers of selected the first test tube of oil.
camps, resorts, motels, ho-
tels, restaurants, dude
George Pierrot's World
ranches, air and train serv-
Adventure Series is shown
ices and tourist attractions
Sunday afternoons at the
to help the reader plan his
Detroit Institute of Arts.
vacation.
The George Pierrot tele-
Free copies are available
vision show appears at 5
at the 23 Detroit-area offices
p.m. daily and 7 p.m.
of Standard Federal Savings.

Saturdays and Sundays on
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it could be ko ,,:-IF!r-killed, of
course — don't. Pierrot de-
scribes it as a "beef-flavorFA
hunk of carpet. You rnak‘:
no progress chewing it."
He portrays Helen. his wif ✓
of 38 years and mother of his
four children, as "more con-
ventional" in her tastes.
Despite the circuitous route
he has taken through life—
from canning salmon in
Alaska to earn his way
through the University of
Washington, to coal mining
in West Virginia, to steering
a ship through the Panama
Canal while serving as deck
hand from Norfolk, Va., to
Seattle — Pierrot remains,
at heart, a Detroiter. Fresh
out of college, he landed
here in 1922 to work for
American Boy magazine,
serving as its editor till 1936.
Pierrot recalls that one of
his first friends was Philip
Slomovitz, editor and pub-
lisher of The Jewish News,
who at that time was editor
of the Jewish Chronicle. With
him and other writers for the
ethnic press, Pierrot met
regularly in the Society for
the Occident and the Orient.
He mourns the death of
so rnany ethnic newspapers
and the dwindling of com-
munities they represented. To
Pierrot, who guesses he's
traveled the equivalent of to
the moon and back, Detroit
has much to recommend it,
and the various nationality
groups are high on that list.

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Now, the whole country's air-
conditioned, it's so rich"),
but for that matter so have
more than 100 other lands.
Benjamin of Tudela, the
famous 12th Century Jewish
traveler, was an amateur
by comparison.
On his television show, at
age 25 the oldest travel-ad-
venture program on the air,
Pierrot presents about three
Israel films a year, he said.
There isn't as much material
available on Lebanon and
Jordan.
Although he personally en-
joys a good controversy,
Pierrot said he tries to keep
it out of his shows. Still,
"we're not Pollyanna. If our
guest knows his subject, he
can inject politics. We take
issue with governments, not
with people."
Pierrot admits that "We do
get some abusive letters
when we present the Arab or
the Jewish side. The Arabs
complain that we don't know
what we're talking about;
the Jewish side complains if
the pictures aren't 'brand
new.' "

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He has great faith in
people in general. "They all
want the same things; the
only difference is lack of op-
portunity. If the governments
in the Middle East, bursting
with oil money, would re-
store the irrigation system
of the Tigris-Euphrates, they
could take care of everybody.
The only trouble is, the oil
money goes to the wrong
people."

Nevertheless, Pierrot says
he thinks that with time,
Arabs and Jews will live in
peace.
Is there some place left,
some untouched spot, that
Pierrot yearns to visit? "The
unconquered territory, the
ultimate and unexplored
territory," he said, "is your
own self. We have an awful
lot to do yet — a lot of space
and a lot of sea to explore.
But man's attempt to subdue
himself will • provide the
greatest adventure."

ZOA Picks 215 Teens
to Study in Israel

NEW YORK (ZINS)—The

Z i o n i s t Organization of
America announced that 215
Pierrot says ne'll answer Jewish high school and col-
a letter from "anyone, big lege students will participate
or small, as long as it isn't in its study and travel pro-
abusive." Even as he was grams this summer in Israel.
The students, from 96 corn-
speaking, a phone call came
in with a request for infor- munities in 13 states and
mation on the desirability o' Canada, were selected from
eating horsemeat—a request among nearly 2,400 applica-
that, to Pierrot, is not so un- tions for the seven-week
camping, institute and lead-
usual.
This man who unpreten ership training programs,
of Bernard M. Rifkin, chairman
tiously drops names
people and places at the rate of the ZOA's national youth
of at least one per sentence, committee, reported.
The programs are conduct-
also is considered somewhat
of an authority on food—any ed by Masada, n at i on al
kind. On his travels he has youth m o v e m e n t of the
eaten (partial listing): lion, 110,000-member ZOA.
tiger, water buffalo milk,
Energy and ;.‘ersistent 2
toasted termites, goat, ga-

zelle (the latter two, plus I conquer all thin.—Benja-
lamb, very popular in the i ruin Franklin.