Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bearings. Illinois was a fair sample of the dilemma many Democratic leaders faced. A Republican trend was running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor votes, and they could not repudiate Harry Truman, their Party's President...
...visiting this country on a lecture tour of several colleges, and will arrive in Cambridge on Sunday. Elliott, who will preside at the meeting Monday night, said that although Emerson D usually was large enough to accommodate the audience for a visiting lecturer, it might be necessary to fall back on the New Lecture Hall if the crowd is too large...
Tyrone Power and Cesar Romero were getting heroes' welcomes in South America. The pair were flying Power's plane in a good-will tour of their own, down the west coast and over the heaven-puncturing Andes to Argentina. In Santiago crowds choked the streets outside the actors' hotel. But Romero missed some of the whoop-te-do: somehow he had lost his footing in another hotel, back in festive Peru, and now lay abed with a cracked elbow...
...question of religion-in-Russia a new voice spoke. It belonged to Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, whose Sunday morning Radio Pulpit (NBC) pulls 4,000 letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...
After an eight-month season of fortnightly concerts, the new Royal will probably tour England and the Continent, eventually visit the U.S. "Sixty or 70 [U.S.] cities have asked me to bring an English orchestra over," says enthusiastic Sir Thomas...