Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross official in China, who recently returned to the United States, tells of a visit he made to Chungking. . . . Seven times that day Japanese planes had raided the city and dropped bombs. The Generalissimo explained that they were trying to find out where he was staying. After a simple dinner the visitor was asked to remain for evening devotions. They knelt together, and first Madame Chiang offered a prayer, then the guest prayed, and finally the Generalissimo. He prayed for the American people to whom his guest was going, then for his own Chinese people, and finally for the Japanese...
Shyly they told their story. They were both on convalescent leave, hitchhiking across the country to visit their parents in San Diego, Calif. They had such short leave they hadn't waited for the British consul to arrange transportation. USOers, fascinated, pressed them for details...
Because of censorship nothing was printed at the time about Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov's historic, incognito visit to England. TIME'S Correspondents Stephen & Lael Laird, cabled this description of the visit from London last week...
...still better possibility is to command the young lady to appear in town and meet her at the Back Bay station, which is fairly convenient to the places to go and things to do. She can catch one of a number of trains back. If you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two, in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...
...your interest turns to Bradford, Wheaten, Connecticut, or Colby, make h er come to Boston; you'll waste your time visiting her, and it'll be worth paying her hotel bill. Probably she'll stop at a Y. W. C. A. haven known as the Pioneer anyway, for chaperonage reasons, and there she pays her own bill. Smith and Vassar are good places to visit...