Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While still in bed, he received an invitation from President Eisenhower to visit the U.S . next December...
Simply Drifting. Ritchard might well have been describing Ritchard. As a highly flexible Superman of the arts, big (6 ft. 2 in., 194 Ibs.), urbane Cyril Ritchard is also the fey earth visitor (and director) of Broadway's hit play A Visit to a Small Planet, a sort of personal gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick...
...first word must be a word of thanks to God, who blessed us by providing the opportunity .to visit America." The gaunt, grey man had been in the U.S. before: the worn black suit he was wearing had been given him by a grateful congregation in New Brunswick, N.J., where he had preached in 1947. But that had been long ago, before his years in Communist jails, years of poverty and isolation. Last week Bishop Lajos Ordass, Lutheran Primate of Hungary, looked with emotion on the free world again, but begged U.S. newsmen to remember in quoting him that...
Today the factories of Essen-and dozens of other Krupp plants throughout Germany-are glowing with activity. Amid the magnificent trappings of the Villa Hügel, his 200-room ancestral mansion above the valley of the Ruhr, Alfried Krupp regally receives visiting heads of state such as King Paul of Greece, Brazil's President Kubitschek, Cabinet ministers and businessmen, extends his hospitality to men who once vowed to destroy him. In a gesture that symbolizes the rehabilitation of the Krupp empire and name, the U.S., which has long refused to admit convicted war criminals, last fortnight granted Alfried...
...drive down the wrong side of the street, make an illegal left turn and pass eight stop signs on a five-block trip, he was fined $50 and lost his license despite his plea that he had trouble walking, hearing and seeing and only drove once a month-to visit his doctor...