Silverstein In Paris

January, 1958

Shel Silverstein has visited and sketched some Iore-and-legend-haunted ports of call for these pages: Tokyo, Scandinavia and London are all atmospheric places packed with color, flavor and historic grandeur, and the antic Silverstein spirit responded to them with whimsy and warmth. But, to twist an old ballad, "no place on earth does he love more sincerely" -- than Paris.The same city that inspired Toulouse and Zola, Villon and Voltaire, Dumas, both père and fils; the city of Nostradam...

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