Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman thought that he had only a little news for his press conference last week. Most of his week's work had concerned the strike and price problems (see below) which he hoped could be solved before his scheduled visit with Winston Churchill* in Florida. But the conference made some headline news anyway...
...enthusiasm which some 5,000 residents had discovered long before him, Dr. Gavrilovic described what was going to happen to the area. It would be a small nation in itself. Big buildings would rise. There would be hotels, restaurants, shops, a railroad station. Thousands of tourists would flock to visit...
...bailiffs were baffled again. Nobody was home. Every house was silent. The cattle had been turned out on the common where they could not be seized. The previous night, every Turner and Turboter had shoved off together to "visit relatives" in Aran, 25 miles away...
Some of the answers were already available: Churchill himself gave LIFE the speeches. Last fall TIME & LIFE'S European Area Director Walter Graebner secured the right to reproduce 20 of Churchill's paintings in LIFE. About to leave, Graebner remarked that he would soon visit the U.S. Said Churchill casually: "Come and see me when you get back. I may have something for you." The "something" was the secret documents, which had been cleared for publication by British authorities and which Graebner bought for LIFE...
...Southern university, to build and stock an art museum. His first will, drawn in 1936, had left the money to Duke University; if Duke didn't want it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. Third choice: Rollins. Duke invited Ackland down for a visit, set an architect to drawing plans. Obviously pleased, Ackland drew up a second will, which made no mention of North Carolina, left a few token legacies to relatives and Rollins. It bequeathed to Duke not only about $1,250,000 for the art museum but the mortal remains of William...