Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desire of Mine." Harry Truman said what he had said before: he would gladly talk to Stalin-in Washington. Reporter Smith got off a quick message to Moscow: Would Stalin accept the invitation? If not, would he meet the President somewhere else? Stalin's answer was prompt: "To visit Washington has long been my desire," he confided. "I regret that at present I am deprived of the possibility of carrying out this desire of mine, since doctors strongly object to my making any long journey, especially by air or sea." He suggested that Truman come to Russia, perhaps...
...first time this season, the wrestling team will be decided underdogs this afternoon when Army's mighty mat corps returns the visit the Crimson paid to West Point last winter. Harvard will be looking to extend its winning skein to four when the first match gets started in the Blockhouse...
Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
...group of civic-minded Plymouth residents are behind the plan, which they hope will give tourists "something more satisfying than a stone on the beach" when they visit the old home of the Pilgrims...