Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creature of Britain's Humorist ("incomparable Max") Beerbohm was a fatal lady with an unlimited appeal to men-and this despite the fact that she was not strictly beautiful ("Her eyes were a trifle large, and their lashes longer than they need have been"). On a brief visit to Oxford, she bewitched the entire undergraduate population to such a degree of unrequited passion that all save one committed suicide by jumping into the Isis during Eights Week, the name of their lady on their lips. Somewhat touched, Zuleika then moved on to Cambridge...
...Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following day he flew home to Chungking for a visit with his aged mother...
...Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were married (he for the third time, she for the second...
Soichi Saito, national secretary of Japan's Y.M.C.A., and the second male Japanese to visit the U.S. since the war,* gives his Report on Japan...
This week, on his 62nd birthday, Kurt Hahn proudly recalled those days. But Schoolmaster Hahn is no man to live on his memories. After Hitler threw him out of Germany, he opened a school in Scotland and one in Wales. Just back in Britain from a fund-raising visit to the U.S., Hahn is now working on plans to start a string of new schools in Germany (one of his old boys has reopened Salem). His formidable goal: 100 schools, a million graduates, in ten years...