Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Stassen rolled into Pendleton, Ore. for the Northwest cow country's famed annual rodeo. He went through the hat routine for distinguished guests: Pendletonians tried to fit him with a cowboy hat, finally found one almost big enough for such a big visitor. Stassen, who wears a 7⅞, settled for a 7⅝. He did what a presidential candidate ought to do: risked his dignity by riding a horse through Pendleton's horse-riding populace. Said ex-Navyman Stassen: "At least I've ridden a little more than Admiral Halsey...
...Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them off as the work of one Capa, a talented visitor from America. It worked in reverse, too, when they sold Capa to U.S. publishers as a talented Frenchman. Eventually, after his girl Gerda was killed in the Spanish war, Friedmann became the Robert Capa he invented, and the craft of picture journalism has never been quite the same since...
...well. It seemed as though the entire Cosmetics Trust of the U.S.S.R. had gone to work, covering Moscow's wrinkled face with layers of magic makeup. Almost overnight the Bolshoi Theater turned a shade of blushing pink; other buildings were newly yellow, light green and blue. Reported a visitor: "It looks like an explosion in a paint factory...
...Lives. At this time, the people's lives were hard and narrow. Reported a visitor: "The houses of the common people in Moscow usually consist only of one room . . . used for all purposes. ... In this room you encounter a large stove covered with boards . . . whereon sits almost all year round, the entire family. ..." Their pleasures were few. Muscovites, who were social drinkers, liked to gather in a korchma (wine tavern) but the taverns were owned by the Czar and rented out to nobles: Muscovites who could not pay for what they drank were held until their friends ransomed them...
Kurt von Schuschnigg, 49, last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler moved in, arrived in Manhattan from Italy with wife Vera and six-year-old daughter Cissy, promptly headed for Brooklyn, declaring his hope to settle there. A visitor for two months last spring, he now returned, said he, as "a refugee, a displaced person." His plan for the future? "To live a quiet life...