Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equal Time? The week began with the President's traditional first-pitch opening of the baseball season, and even then the reporters had a new angle to write about. "Would you like to go to the ball game with me?" Kennedy asked a morning visitor, 17-year-old Richard Lopez of El Paso, the Boys' Clubs of America's "Boy of the Year." Lopez surely did, and was photographed with the President. "I felt 50 feet high," he reported...
...unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
...lighting no fires in this particular house. High above it all, bolted to the eaves, is a functioning 28-bell carillon that, at the touch of a switch, tolls out something from Carmen, which, in the Larchmont libretto, means "Come home." Whether for dinner, discipline or to greet a visitor, the Kerr boys head in when they hear the bell; so, in fact, did their late, spectacularly lamented...
Without Encouragement. Jenkins comes from Kansas City, Mo., and doughtily insists that being born there "had as much mystery and adventure for me as being born in some temple city in India." As a boy, he was a constant visitor to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, and on a weekend job with a master moldmaker at a ceramics factory he got his first observation of a man's "timing and tactile sense with a difficult medium." When Frank Lloyd Wright blew into town on a commission to build a church, Jenkins met him and grandly announced that...
...Paris in 1900, he stopped long enough in Manhattan to call on the already famous Alfred Stieglitz and to show him some photographs he had taken back home. Photographer Stieglitz looked them over, bought a batch for $5 apiece. "Well," he said as his 21-year-old visitor was leaving, "I suppose now that you are going to Paris you will forget all about photography." Steichen was already in the elevator when he blurted his reply. "I will always stick to photography," he said...