Word: barnstorms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Webster company, traveling in a bus, a truck and a station wagon, will barnstorm 87 cultural outposts-mostly colleges-on a six-month tour of 33 states and three Canadian provinces. Besides half a dozen technicians, the company consists of 21 players. The plays this season will be Hamlet and Macbeth...
...Echo. But this week, as Henry prepared to barnstorm the South, his Western triumph began to give off a slightly hollow echo, and so did talk of a third party. Though the Wallace name had been wildly cheered everywhere, the Wallace words had been greeted with only perfunctory applause. The listeners who arrived in high enthusiasm had gone away as troubled as before. His loud cries "in behalf of the common man"; "stop the rush to war" did not stand analysis, and they continued to ring true only to the devout...
...more." With this overhead smash, 21-year-old Frank Kovacs, second-ranking tennist in the U.S., turned pro last week. So did 23-year-old Bobby Riggs, U.S. No. 1. For 22 weeks, starting Dec. 26 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Riggs and Kovacs will barnstorm 80 U.S. cities-along with Oldtimers Don Budge and Fred Perry...