Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would prefer, however, to reach success via the stage. Her experience behind the footlights started in 1937 when she played summer stock in Skowhegan, Maine; this was her first and only visit to New England, and she enjoyed it very much. Since then she has toured with "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and filled in the rest of her time with two "quick flops" on Broadway, which, as she very justly observes, "weren't my fault, of course...
...more surprised than the Princess when, last weekend, Prince Bernhard suddenly appeared in Ottawa. He had flown the Atlantic for a two-week visit with his family. Together Prince and Princess planned a trip to the U.S., a call on President Roosevelt at the White House...
...Premier Paul Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...
...Results. Not all Rockefeller projects have come to happy fruition. Worst boner was the launching of a $500,000 advertising campaign in Latin-American newspapers to persuade tourists to visit the U.S. The newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
...Monitor story read: "President Roosevelt will visit Harvard University June 19 to take part in special alumni ceremonies symbolizing the unity of Great Britain and the United States, it was learned here today. Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States will also participate in the occasion...