Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's teetotalism, the town of Newport, England decided, is his own personal business. The Town Council rejected a proposal that all Newport citizens stick to orangeade and lemonade during the Marshal's visit there this month...
Winston Churchill, had already left London. Tired out with campaigning (see FOREIGN NEWS), he rested at Hendaye, a pleasant town and international rumor factory on the Spanish-French border. President Truman planned to cross the Atlantic and then France without seeing Charles de Gaulle, who will visit him later in Washington. Since it would never do to give the impression of an advance Anglo-American caucus, Truman and Churchill decided not to meet before they reached Potsdam. Stalin was coming by train over rails recently changed, all the way to the Elbe, to the broad Russian gauge...
...original members of that committee when the World Council was tentatively set up in 1937. (Before any permanent organization could be started, war came.) The World Council now includes some 88 denominations in 29 countries. Dr. Cavert hopes that he and his Geneva co-workers can: 1) visit Germany to discuss the place of German churches in the Council; 2) visit Eastern Orthodox churchmen in Greece; 3) study the reconstruction of European churches; 4) aid refugees. Says Sam Cavert: "I think I have the most interesting job in Protestantism...
Last week, the man with the key paid his first visit to Hollywood. To woo him, the gilded city turned out as it never had - clear down to its $500-a-week writers...
Wednesday, Rank journeyed out to M.G.M. to have chicken sour with M.G.M.'s Mayer. (Even when M.G.M. production has been off, Mayer's chicken sour has maintained a uniformly high quality.) Gently, Mayer probed at the reason for Rank's visit. Gently, Rank turned the talk back to horse racing...