Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Vanderbilt Stolcowslci, filling out papers for her visit south of the border with Husband Leopold Stokowski, listed her occupation as housewife. In Los Angeles, the Bank of America turned over to Gloria's just-discarded first husband, Pasquale di Cicco, a $200,000 slice of her $4,500,000 inheritance (Pat's first wife, the late, blond comedienne Thelma Todd, bequeathed...
...from a graduate whose similar haziness about life in England was cleared up by a visit to Cambridge, Princeton University had an idea. It began conducting weekend courses for groups of British and Dominion servicemen and women stationed in the U.S. Last week the 15th such group left Princeton's campus after a three-day closeup of U.S. opinion, culture, labor, politics, hospitality. The general student reaction: the U.S. is easier to understand and much more likable than its press, radio and cinema have led foreigners to believe...
...relatives who were to receive mementos from her husband's possessions. Those who saw her thought her hair looked greyer; her eyes were tired and she was pale, but she worked on without pause. Toward the end of the week, she invited newspaperwomen to pay her a last visit at the White House...
Each phase of teaching will begin with actual problems, then work back into theory, generalizations, background. Colgate is aware that its new plan will require "dynamic materials." (Samples: a course in economics may begin with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange; a course in public affairs with attendance at New York State Legislature sessions in Albany.) The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side. To make up for the high percentage (two-fifths) of class hours which the Core will absorb, Colgate will encourage its applicants to come fully prepared...
Since the world of fashion cannot, at the moment, visit Paris, Paris intends to visit the world. Last week 35 leading couturieres (Schiaparelli, Lucille, Lucien Lelong, et al.) were showing off their latest concoctions in advance of an international tour. The 200 models (soon to visit the U.S., Britain and South America) were 18-inch wire dolls. Ace Artists Jean Cocteau and Christian ("Bébé") Berard painted the miniature sets. To help revive its fashion industry, Paris launched the show with full fanfare-in the Louvre...