Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General of the Army (ret.) Omar N. Bradley will visit Kirkland House for three days starting April 14, Charles H. Taylor, Master, disclosed yesterday...
...will be impossible, Taylor indicated, to arrange a series of small dinners similar to those which marked the recent visit of playwright S. N. Behrman '16, because Bradley's stay will be a good deal shorter than Behrman's, which lasted a week. The House staff will, however, try to allow as many students as possible to meet the General personally...
...with it. The performance on records with John Gielgud and the movie with Michael Redgrave are both extant, and each would be definitive if the other did not exist. If anybody has managed to attain to the age of reason without having seen or heard or read Earnest, a visit to the local performance would not be a bad idea, simply because Wilde's masterpiece is too good to miss. But the rest of us would do just as well to remain content with our memories, because Repertory Boston is not distinguishing itself in its current production...
...Sungshan airport. It was an ambassador's welcome for Gregory Cardinal Agaganian, the Vatican's proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, i.e., boss of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide missions. The first man in that post ever to visit the Far East, Armenian Cardinal Agaganian came straight to the point in his airport press conference. Plainly referring to the 3,000,000 Chinese Catholics under Red rule, he said: "I pray that God will shower his blessings over the Chinese people-everywhere. I send them love and affection, and assure them...
...Must be willing to carry own rucksack 20 miles a day." But both kinds cost money, and for purposes of wheedling cash and supplies an impressively academic purpose is a requirement. Said one expedition veteran: "The trick is to decide which place in the world you most want to visit, then find some compelling scientific or historical reason for going there...