Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctant Success. "You are sitting before a man who is utterly devoid of ambition," Virgil Partch once told an admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...
...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...
...Loire chateau on June 13, the Ministers and the generals assembled to deliberate the fate of France. Reynaud presided, flanked by Pétain and Weygand. The rest gathered around the long table, with young General de Gaulle inconspicuously seated near the lower end. They had a distinguished visitor. Winston Churchill...
...visitor was Planemaker Alexander Yakovlev, designer of the wicked fighting plane YAK, and it was the first of many sessions with No.1. Last week Moscow's Pioneer ran Yakovlev's intimate reminiscences of Stalin as a man of precepts...
...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...