Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days later, while telegrams poured in congratulating both Mr. & Mrs. Pollock on their stands, it was clear that Mr. Pollock's husbandly heat had cooled. Announcing that his wife's abdication had been entirely her own idea, he indicated that Mrs. Pollock would probably make the tour after all. And just to prove that there were no hard feelings, the whole family was thinking of going along-in a private plane, accompanied by a nurse and stewardess, with all expenses paid...
...Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...
...destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times...
...Nazis wanted him to tour Germany, playing "anything but Chopin." When he refused, they put him into a work battalion digging trenches. One night he ran away ("Thank God I have long legs"), was smuggled into Austria to join the Polish colony in Vienna. He played Chopin for music-loving Austrians in Salzburg's Mozarteum, Vienna's Musikvereins-Saal. After a private recital in Rome an impresario arranged Andre's first public concert. It was a sellout...
Long-range plans are being made by the Glee Club, which has been ranked consistently as one of the finest choral groups in the country, for a tour of the Scandinavian countries in the summer of 1948. The club made a similar trip...