It seemed somehow appropriate that on the day before the Seattle fair opened, the one familiar symbol of another great fairindeed of another great erashould say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape paradethe Host of New York.
His top hat or Homburg set squarely on his head, his natty guardsman's mustache stretched over a smile, a fresh carnation peeping from his lapel, Whalen flashed...