Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filled the White House lawn. Said the President: "I am confident that your common sense, your enthusiasm and your deep understanding of the problems of the day will go far to keep the American people on the right road in this Year of Grace 1940. Now come in and visit...
...Love's Old Sweet Song Saroyan has abandoned his boozy lyricism in favor of boyish pranks. A few of the pranks-including a visit to the Okies of something that does not exist-a traveling "college boy" subscription salesman for TIME-are quite funny. So are bits of the dialogue. But the play as a whole confuses bounce with brashness, hews to no comedic line, and eventually becomes as tiresome as a precocious child whose parents let him show off long past bedtime...
...this week, after his shortest Georgia visit (nine days), he entrained for Washington, waving cheery farewell to his Georgia friends: "I'll be back in November-I hope!" Last year, in an equally anxious April, he had called out, "I'll be back in the fall-if we don't have...
...made a new picture-Forty Little Mothers (M.G.M.). So had Comedian Benny-Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount). This coincidence was the more curious because both comedians' last pictures were no great shakes. Cantor's Ali Baba Goes to Town left 20th Century-Fox like a visit of the forty thieves. Benny's Man About Town suggested that some Benny fans would rather listen free to than pay to look at their hero...
...official statement to the press late last night a half dozen Harvard Sophomores announced that they had paid a surprise visit to the Deke House at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and reported proudly that they had left a souvenir in the form of a 20-inch "H" on the oak front door...