Edwin Hill ("Ted") Patrick, editor of Holiday magazine from 1946 until his death in 1964, was respected internationally for his editorial leadership, for his exquisite taste, and for the remarkable success of the handsome travel/lifestyle magazine he created for the Curtis Publishing Company. Patrick combined an astute marketing sense with refined editorial and managerial skills to sculpt Holiday into a literary and artistic showcase. Capitalizing on the rapidly expanding travel industry of the postwar era, he presented, to a leisure-hungry American public, the exotic sights and delights a shrinking world could bring. In the nation's eager return to peacetime pursuits, Patrick's vision of "the good life, the good times" (a Holiday slogan) portrayed a tasteful, accessible, and rewarding cosmopolitan life; armchair travelers participated vicariously in the charming intellectual and cultural discoveries of V. S. Pritchett, E. B. White, Clifton Fadiman, Laurens Van der Post, and Joyce Cary, while the...