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Open the Door, Richard! made no more sense than Kilroy, or Chickery Chick or The Hut-Sut Song-and was obviously in for the same flash fame. Its simple-minded chorus, something that any fool could sing and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Open the Door, Richard | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Distinction. In Lakeville, Conn., someone penciled in the Hotchkiss School lavatory: "Schuyler van Kilroy 3rd was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...name no killjoy for Man of the Year. I nominate Kilroy the Man who "was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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