Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...year-old-Christy Lynch is the new U.S. music season's most trumpeted visitor. After a cocktail party and supper in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish...
...rare spirit of hospitality, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick opened the doors of his high-paneled office last week to an inquiring visitor. The visitor: New York Timesman Felix Belair Jr. Because he had a cold, the Colonel kept Reporter Belair at a respectful 15 feet to protect him from germs. But he let him have some gems of McCormick wisdom...
From New York State alone came three ranking Democrats: Brooklyn's Borough President John Cashmore, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, gubernatorial candidate Jim Mead, who was closeted with the President for a solid two hours (usual visitor's stay: about 15 minutes...
...fullback powerful Vince Moravec has gotten the nod over last year's regular, Bobby Cowen . . . Moravec played in 1945 for the New London Sub Base eleven, showed his stuff too well in the Stadium for the Crimson comfort as the visitor's triumphed 18-7. Moravec is six feet, three inches tall and weighs a cool 200 pounds in his stocking feet. Cowen, who was elected honorary captain of last year's gridmen at the end of the season, is just on his way back from that omni-present sick list...