Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was Yalta when the late, great Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and his party of Yankee innocents abroad arrived to visit Tsar Alexander II at his summer estate, Livadia. In the same expanse of gardens and palaces, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had their second meeting. Clemens said of the setting...
...they did after Teheran, the stories of other toasts and high jinks would come later. After his gay visit to Yalta in 1867, Samuel Clemens noted in his diary...
...that cap. . . ." He explained: "I've got a cute wife back in Boston who won't think I'm so crazy." Lieut. Colonel William ("Willy") Wyler, peacetime cinema director (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), wartime director of the combat film, The Memphis Belle, made his first visit in 15 years to his birthplace - the city of Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine. There he was welcomed by Madame Henriette, fiftyish, manager of his late father's dry-goods store; she had somehow kept the shop out of Nazi clutches, courted death to salt away the war-year profits, handed...
...Shirt Town" (TiME, Jan. 15. 1944), he not only aroused Chicagoans, as he had planned, but alarmed his boss, William Randolph Hearst. Last week Herald-American Executive Editor Ruppel answered a summons to San Simeon. The Chief was worried about offending too many Chicago people. Ruppel later described his visit...
This is "VillaLobos Week"-according to the U.S. League of Composers, which is celebrating the first North American visit of South America's best-known composer: plump, talkative, 57-year-old Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is also the bouncy Brazilian's second week of Manhattan performances and the halfway point in his U.S. schedule of guest-conducting (Los Angeles' Janssen Symphony, Manhattan's Philharmonic, Stokowski's New York City Symphony, the Boston Symphony...