Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a third caravan of contemporary U.S. paintings set up its wares in Bogotá, capital of Colombia...
Motto of the Bank of England has always been: "Never explain. Never apologize." To newspaper criticisms of the Bank Norman once said merely: "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on." But in wartime England such hauteur no longer suffices. After Picture Post featured an article last spring demanding that Norman retire, he appointed the Bank's first press-relations officer in history...
...Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, an audience of 3,000 saw the first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Balletomane Kirstein's tour is strictly business. If South America doesn't like it, all right. If it does, the Caravan will dance until Christmas, or until the gunpowder comes out at the heels of its shoes. Last week Mr. Kirstein unbent, cabled his Manhattan office: OPENING GREAT SUCCESS LOVE...
When the raiders struck again last week, the British were working with General Charles de Gaulle's forces once more. As before, a Free French column pressed up the ancient Faya-Tekro caravan route from Chad, swung out into the Libyan desert, where they were joined by the British. This time they even had planes to help them. They raced in over the Cufra oases, an important refueling centre for Italian transport planes supplying Italy's East African Armies, smashed the airfield and opened the way for a successful attack by mechanized ground troops...