Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
...their frequent Eight-Ball dinners, members of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club like to rub elbows with men of distinction. President Truman addressed the club once; so did Vice President Alben Barkley and General Mark Clark. The guest speaker at the next dinner, the members decided, should be Manhattan's urbane and ubiquitous Frank Costello, sometime bootlegger and big-time gambler...
Unless the distinguished guest so requested, there would be no conferences of high state, no thought of pressure or promises, no hint of alliances or pacts, no talk of loans or investments. In a packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Ezio Pinza...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). "Russia." Guest: Harold, E. Stassen...