Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former Editors of the CRIMSON who have no place to come home to after the Yale baseball game tomorrow afternoon are invited by the Editors to visit 14 Plympton Street for a dipper-full of punch...
...greatly regret that my 93 years do not permit me ... to repeat my [1931] visit to Moscow, which remains one of the brightest of all my cherished memories," wrote Bernard Shaw, declining an invitation to the 150th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birthday. He sent good wishes anyway: "The Soviet Union still interests me more than any other state in the world, including my own country...
...Soong, 55, onetime Premier of China, now listed by the Communists as a "war criminal," arrived with Mme. Soong by plane from France, where he had been taking a rest cure at Aix-les-Bains. No politics connected with his trip, he said. It was just a three-month visit as "a private citizen," chiefly "to see my children [Laurette, 21, Mary Jane, 19, Katherine, 18, all going to school in the U.S.] and old friends," and, "of course,"his sister, Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
Among the guests was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who made a conditional gift of $5,000,000 to the Business School last Thursday. The condition is that the school must match the sum by July 1, 1950. It was Rockefeller's first visit to the School...