Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...
Opera in this city has suffered a severe decline while its prestige as an artistic form has risen all over the nation. And when the Met, which is not entirely blameless, takes its company on the Boston tour, it calls forth last dollars of Back Bay operagoers...
...serious thoughts about the job. He was Alfred Schindler, a short, bouncy, cheerful conservative who had been Henry Wallace's Under Secretary for 17 months. A onetime feed salesman, he was on a speaking tour of the West Coast when word came from Washington that he was now Acting Secretary. Salesman Schindler bustled into action, sent word to Department heads to "carry on," hopped a plane to Washington. There he stirred no doubts about his ambition: "I'd consider it an opportunity; there's a job to be done...
...hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...
...Archbishop of Canterbury had the time of his life in a whirlwind one-month, 10,000-mile U.S.-Canada tour, on which he visited the White House, got honorary degrees from Columbia, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that his public utterances had averaged 1.95 per diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted...