Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grace Moore, bubbly blonde operatic soprano, was back from a European tour. Laryngitis had forced her to skip a concert at London's Albert Hall, and she had a fine prima-donna tribute for the audience. "The audience was simply marvelous," she said, "accepting my apologies and listening instead to Marjorie Lawrence...
...London's celebrated Old Vic Theater Company begins the final week of its U.S. tour with a 90-minute production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring Ralph Richardson...
...with flexible scruples can pile up a handsome profit. Required for the trick are 1) the false bottoms of inflation and 2) a well-organized international set of stooges. Last week, TIME's London bureau found a traveler who had just returned from a cheap weekend tour of the continent...
...clubhouse near Frankfurt last week, 179 works of art were on display in a much-ballyhooed Red Cross "Overseas Artists Competition." Red Cross officials took one look at the first prizewinner (picked by civilian and Army judges), and hastily called off the show's scheduled tour of Red Cross clubs in Germany...
...Specter. Could the U.S. do more than it was doing? Back to Washington came Herbert Hoover, after a 35,000-mile tour through 25 food-short countries. After reporting to the President, he broadcast to the nation what he had seen: "The grimmest specter of famine in all the history of the world. . . . Hunger hangs over the homes of 800,000,000 people . . . over one-third of the people of the earth...