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Whenever the student tries a new experiment these days, he is apt to find that Picasso, like Kilroy, has been there ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Captain Pablo's Voyages (See Cover) | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...April 6 Henry Wallace arrived in Evansville for a rally. An organization named "The Spirit of Kilroy" picketed the meeting with the aid of high school boys, some town people, and some students. The pickets shouted, broke windows, and broke into the meeting, afterwards attacking Wallace's entourage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Wallace Men Charge 'Purging' | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

...Governor Tom Dewey, who likes things tidy, the reports coming in to the executive mansion at Albany were disturbing. Hustling Harold Stassen, who had been more places than Kilroy, was chopping into Dewey's strength in states he had checked off as sure things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Trouble for Tom | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...grey, weather-streaked building on New York City's Flushing Meadow, unused since December, reeked of furniture polish. A sweeper swabbed a Kilroy variation off a blackboard in the main reception room of the United Nations General Assembly chamber; it had read: "The Irgun Zvai Leumi was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Palestine Case | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: No Shangri-La | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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