Word: kilroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Distinction. In Lakeville, Conn., someone penciled in the Hotchkiss School lavatory: "Schuyler van Kilroy 3rd was here...
Still Here. In Kansas City, a restaurant owner phoned Mrs. Jane Kilroy, complained that her son had been there, had left his name all over the place...
...name no killjoy for Man of the Year. I nominate Kilroy the Man who "was here...
Found: a dormitory for Kilroy's nine children. James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Mass., who says he first wrote "Kilroy was here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...
That Man Again. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students, sick of the G.I. gag "Kilroy was here," staged a mock burial, inscribed on the tombstone: "Kilroy is here." In Caldwell, N.J., National Bank officials put up a neon sign over the entrance to the safe-deposit vault. The sign: "Kilroy was here...