Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined, ear-muffed pilot's cap, paused in her U.S.O. tour of Belgium, braced herself for the usual souvenir-snatching. To A.P. War Photographer Peter Carroll, she said: "The airborne boys . . . asked for my garters. What do you want . . . my scanties?" Said practical Photographer Carroll: "No thanks, but I sure could use that cap. . . ." He explained: "I've got a cute...
...through another season, mostly on minor league manpower-the baseball news of the week came from Hawaii. There the Navy had assembled not one but two bona fide big-league teams. Managed by Lieut. Bill Dickey, late of the Yankees, the sailors were packing their seabags for an exhibition tour of the farthest-flung Pacific posts. The batting order...
Donald is flanked on his tour of the Good-Neighborhood by debonair...
Critics of U.S. Army tanks and guns got a sharp answer last week from the man most responsible for army weapons. Back from a four-weeks' tour of the European battlefronts came Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr., Chief of Ordnance, ready to defend his goods and loaded with testimonials from satisfied users...
...Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country got, so I decided I'd better...