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Show Distinguished Visitors i Stop In Roosevelt Leona Johnson had "the thrill, of a lifetime" .and Costuros' Store was thrown into something of a flutter one day last week when Dr. B. C. Roy, of Calcutta, India, and his wife and daughter daugh-ter stopped in to do some shopping. shop-ping. Dr. Roy, personal physician and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, has been sent to th.e United States by the Indian government, gov-ernment, as head of two committees, commit-tees, military-medical services integration, and educational. He has been working with United Nations and was enroute to San Francisco at the time his party slopped in Roosevelt. He is a former mayor of Calcutta and former dean of Calcutta University. Univer-sity. At the present time he is finance and public health minister min-ister of West Bengal. The trio presented a picturesque pictures-que and not-to-be-forgotten sight as they walked down Roosevelt's main street with the tall, gray-haired gray-haired physician clad In black military tunic and white jodhpurs, jodh-purs, while his wife nnd daughter daugh-ter were attired in the colorful, flowing costume native lo their homeland. While chatting to Leona Johnson, John-son, who assisted them with their purchases, Miss Roy expressed ex-pressed herself as approving of American dress, but felt that oi.m skirts "reveal a bit too much leg." |