Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frilled dress shirt to come back from the laundry. "I have two or three others," murmured French Fashion Prince Yves St. Laurent, 29, "but I just like that one. It's been to 30 or 40 parties on this trip." After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father of my dresses," he sighed to Yvonne de Peyerimhoff, the director of his Paris salon. "A sentimental trip." Some people thought he might also make a trip to the barber before returning to France. "Oh, it's short...
When Queen Elizabeth II paid her first official visit to the U.S. in 1957, New York reporters spent warm hours trudging alongside her ticker-tape parade up Broadway. At one point, they were startled by the sight of an unexpected limousine in the procession. In side, cool and elegantly dressed, sat Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, covering the event in her regal fashion. Wiping the perspiration from her forehead, an exasperated woman reporter murmured: "There goes the Queen covering the Queen...
...obscure trial witness. Whenever Hearst editors scented a big story, she was sure to get the assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount of space-some seven pages-that the Journal-American devoted to her death...
...waiting-room table was "a poop-sheet of the trade organization of personal-injury lawyers. It was advertising a seminar on how to get the big verdicts." As a "plodding general practitioner," Bowman reports with tongue-in-cheek hyperbole that he learned many a practical lesson on his visit to this "arche typical" personal-injury firm. His account, of course, is fictional, but the American Bar Association Journal found it fascinating enough to print...
...Robert Browning shouting "Hip, hip, hooray!" for Edison's new machine, and encompasses every form of music right up to the rock 'n' rollers. "Today's trivia," explains Striker, "may interest tomorrow's historian." Singers such as Resnik, Sutherland and Gianna d'Angelo visit the Institute to hear how their predecessors interpreted a role, conductors and musicologists to hear little-known works...