Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
...Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg a "nice Colonial name" and hopes it will stick...
...write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
...concert this week in Berlin, Berlin's famed 65-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra was led by a U.S. war correspondent in battledress. Besides being a war correspondent, the guest conductor was a Negro, born in British Guiana. The 2,000 Berliners and the 500 Allied soldiers in the audience found it quite an experience. They applauded warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William...
...Manhattan's Julliard School, has several times conducted the London Philharmonic. He was in Berlin as correspondent for the Associated Negro Press of Chicago. Shortly before the Berlin Philharmonic's Conductor Leo Borchard was accidentally killed by U.S. sentries (TIME, Sept. 3), he had invited Dunbar to guest-conduct. U.S. occupation authorities were all for it, though their interest was more in teaching the Germans a lesson in racial tolerance than in Dunbar's musicianship...