Kilroy search is concluded in Quincy.

The American Transit Authority sponsors a nation-wide contest to find the identity of the man who signed “Kilroy was here” (usually accompanied by a drawing a long-noised, bald-headed man peering over a fence) on many of the World War II destroyers built at the Fore River Shipyard. The contest winner (and “the real Kilroy”) is James Kilroy, a former Boston City Councilor who had become a rivet inspector at the shipyard, who subsequently explains the phrase marked where he ended his inspections at the end of each day. As the contest winner, Kilroy’s prize is an obsolete Boston Elevated Railway streetcar.