Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm got a new senior partner-Wendell Willkie. From the 200-odd jobs offered him since his defeat, Mr. Willkie had chosen the law, his original profession. He planned to concentrate on trial work, would pick his own cases. Before starting work, Wendell Willkie set out to visit his Indiana farms. But law firms, like brides, change their names as soon as the partnership is made, and at Mr. Willkie's future place of business the telephone operators were already saying, "Willkie, Owen, Otis & Bailly...
...Most of the Hotel Pera Palace's rocking chairs are upstairs in the rooms. One TIME editor on a visit to Istanbul counted no less than 14 rockers in the sitting room of his two-room suite. Though they cannot show documentary proof, furniture historians confidently believe that rockers originated in North America, since they were common there in the 18th Century but unknown in Europe before the 19th...
...zooming 15-minute visit to the Press Photographers' show in Manhattan, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped to admire a large portrait. Asked a knowing guide: "Do you recognize him?" Surveying the picture of Wendell Willkie, she responded: "Oh yes, I remember him well...
...visit to the Government's research farm outside Washington, 18-year-old Ann Wickard, daughter of Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, grabbed a jolly springling porker of the latest bacon-plus breed, thrust him squealing into the sun light for all to see his streamlined hams...
...puzzled, powerful old liberal turns up who says he is God Almighty. He is. He and Noah proceed to an entertaining exegesis of the Old Testament, the problem of evil, the possibilities of redemption, all of which is as fresh and stimulating as Captain Storm field's Visit to Heaven. Together they begin to plan an Ark in which all that is propitious for a new world may be saved. God will be allowed aboard, but there is no guarantee that He will last out the voyage...