Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry James returned to the U.S. for a long visit in 1904, he had been an expatriate for more than a quarter of a century. He had communed with Europe and had brought the art of the novel to a perfection probably unequaled since. The American Scene, his impressions of the U.S. (actually only the eastern seaboard) represents the Master at the height of his cultivation, endlessly receptive, endlessly scrupulous, endlessly amused...
...opening session at Lake Success (L.I.): 1) Russia's stern-faced Delegate Andrei Gromyko had been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland); the rest were rejected...
Barbara Hutton's dashing friend, Freddie McEvoy of the Errol Flynn set, faced a flying visit from his second wife and their 15-month-old daughter, just as Dime-Store Heiress Hutton's divorce from Gary Grant finally became final. Said Mrs. Irene Wrightsman McEvoy, between hops from California to Paris (where Freddie and Miss Hutton coincided): rumors that Freddie and the heiress would marry had "nothing to do with it"-she just wanted to know if she herself was still Mrs. McEvoy. Once he had said he had divorced her, but now he said...
Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...
...Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...