Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S account of the visit of the Windsors [TIME, Oct. 6] was one of the crudest bits of writing ever to appear in your notoriously unkind pages, which must set a record of some sort. Rather a cheap record, however, because the officially snubbed Windsors are quite defenseless; hardly fair game for your newshawk's acid-tipped beak...
...city in 1917 on a visit to the Navy Yard, said the President, and he had to hold his nose the whole time. What stirred this olfactory reminiscence was the confession of a Philadelphia newsman that the situation in his home town was "stinking...
...Finance Minister Ilsley went to work on the most complicated and rigorous project of Government economic control ever attempted on this continent, he had an interested visitor. Short, gum-chewing Leon Henderson went up on a flying visit from Washington to get some tips on the job he may some day have to do as Price Administrator...
...General Charles Macon Wesson, has a habit of waving away criticism without answering it. He has also been rightly accused of being over-complacent about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
Last weekend I had my first chance to visit the Saturday afternoon home of the Monday morning quarterbacks, high above the heads of the Harvard fans on top of Soldiers Field. From now on I have no more ideals of the working press, sports division; its representatives are not half so colorful as the assembled members of the Class of '00, gathered together in Row ZZ to watch their Alma Mater roll...