Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teddy is back in New York this week for his first visit home since early in 1942-and perhaps you would be interested in some of the things he has been telling me about his personal experiences on his journey to civilization's oldest and newest frontier...
...Bricker of Ohio, now the only candidate actively campaigning, turned up at Chicago's Union League Club, where he demanded that the U.S. hold tight to its wartime bases. He crossed over into Indiana, announced he would "intensify" his campaign. Then significantly he proceeded on his first campaign visit to the Northwest...
...grey-haired wife Fannie in a little three-room apartment in Brooklyn. Isaac is a flutist. Last week Isaac conducted the Fishberg family's Passover services with true patriarchal dignity. Fishbergs from Manhattan and The Bronx, with their wives and children, put away their fiddles and trombones to visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa...
Pink-cheeked Isaac Fishberg speaks only Yiddish and is a man of great spirit. In spite of his age, he gets up at 4 o'clock every morning to visit the synagogue, does the family marketing himself on the way home. He is infuriated if anyone suggests that his health is delicate. He has high blood pressure, but claims to enjoy it. He views most of his in-laws with tolerance, but would not live with any of his descendants for a prophet's ransom...
...evening Major General Wingate, in command of British troops operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma, had to make a rush visit to his air commando force. A terrific tropical storm was raging at his base airstrip,* but he climbed into a Mitchell B-25 and took off. He did not arrive at his destination...