Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orde Wingate never got back. He died in a plane crash on a Burmese mountainside, four weeks before his son was born. But last week Lorna was back. "Israel is at war," she told Jewish friends in Tel Aviv, as she left for a visit to the U.S. "If I had gold and money I would contribute them for the war which my husband foresaw. Not having them, I decided to [bring] you my son ... to be educated in Israel and to be a loyal son of both Israel and Britain...
Strained Relations."Now, right enough, the police had made a dab at me in 1939, but I had got a whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought...
...storekeepers of Italy listened to the Pope with a special joy last week. In his semi-annual radio address to the world's Catholics, Pius XII announced officially that 1950 would be a Holy Year-the 25th in the church's history**-during which Catholics who visit Rome to "venerate the tombs of the Apostles and the See of Peter" earn special indulgences for their sins...
There are many reasons for this unparalleled urge to visit the Old World. Some are going there to study, others for the gay young Parisiennes, and still others because they think this may be their only chance to see the Europe they have heard so much about...
...feel pounds lighter when I enter his door." Last week, a Quiz-Kid committee of college professors admitted that Bunk was right by naming Roy Fisher "The Best Teacher of 1948." Fisher will get $1,000 in cash, a $1,500 scholarship to any university he chooses, and a visit to Chicago. (Omitted prize: a "body-beautiful treatment," for winning schoolmarms...