Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also just about the last person in TIME Inc. to see the overseas correspondent before he takes off, and the first to greet him on his return. Having arranged for the multitude of shots required by foreign service, she is likely to hear from correspondents or photographers, wherever they go, requesting this or that drug, a favorite prescription, some needed advice. Not long ago a photographer in a remote part of China cabled frantically for a rush order of medication for his wife, who was momentarily expecting a child...
Undergraduates who are not degree candidates can obtain one standing room ticket apiece it was disclosed. They will be subject to the same application procedure and deadline. All applicants must call for their tickets in person at University Hall between 2 and 5 o'clock Tuesday or 9 and 5 o'clock Wednesday of the week of the ceremony...
...minutes past 7 appears stocky, pink-cheeked Giovanni Stefanoli, 57, the Pope's aiutente di camera, who has been his personal servant for years. Giovanni is the first person who sees the Pope every morning. He stands in silence by the door from the bedroom to the private chapel. No word is spoken until after Mass...
Guide Hunt. The standard anthropological procedure for making friends with offish primitives, Holder explains, is to skirt their territory looking for an "acultural individual"-i.e., a person from outside who has learned their primitive ways, or a primitive who has deserted to civilization. He can teach you the language, and is often eager to introduce you to his reluctant friends (it makes him look...
...woman stalked into Guerlain's shop on the Avenue des Champs-Elyseés. She had a complaint to make to the proprietor in person: "Monsieur, your perfume doesn't smell as good as it used to." One of the dignified old gentlemen who now run the company snapped: "My perfume never changes. If anything doesn't smell as good as it used to, it must be you, Madame...