Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Swing Fan Panassié arrived in Manhattan on his first visit to the U.S. After skimming the cream of Manhattan's swing spots, Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature...
...Hyde Park went Professor & Mrs. Felix Frankfurter for a visit. Franklin Roosevelt warned the press not to go "out on a limb" by predicting Dr. Frankfurter's appointment to the Supreme Court: this was just the Frankfurters' "annual visit." Staying off the limb, some observers wondered whether Host Roosevelt was perhaps explaining to faithful (except on the Court Plan) Felix Frankfurter why he could not be appointed...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
...pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun; Treasurer Adolph Shelby Ochs, now general manager of the Chattanooga Times...
After Wallace's unforgettable visit, David's Uncle Byron, a botanist, took him to Rutgers College for postgraduate work. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1889, and in the next half century became one of the world's greatest plant hunters...