Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five and a half months in Europe, W. Averell Harriman, U.S. ambassador-at-large to the Marshall Plan nations, came home last week on a visit. Before reporting to President Truman, who was still in Key West, Harriman addressed the American Federation of Labor convention in Cincinnati...
...room, alone, reading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s The Age of Jackson. Despite the convivial atmosphere of the convention, he sternly denied himself lunches (he struggles religiously to keep his weight at 185 lbs.-at one time he did daily roadwork to reduce). He turned down all invitations to visit bars, nightclubs or gambling joints (at 54, he has yet to touch either alcohol or tobacco...
...once to invite newsmen to take a swim with him. Someone asked if he would hold a press conference. "Not if I can help it," he declared promptly. When urged, he added: "Well, maybe, if you can think of some questions-and let me ask them." On his last visit, his Jeff Davis beard was gone. Bess Truman and Margaret were arriving that day, he explained...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
...office), his job should normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...