Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
When Rafael was bora in 1914, Jan Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour...
...tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces, raised its critical rating from fair to excellent...
...students, guests of the National Student Association, Student Council, and Crimson Key, will tour the University today and will perform with the Folk Dance Society at Sargent tonight...
...Cross Country" is a package show; it will tour night, clubs across the continent when it leaves Boston after a four-week run. At that time an entirely new Max Liebman revue will open at the Latin Quarter. The present show isn't completely successful, but with some betters material and more comedy, the experiment could easily be a shot in the arm for both drooping night clubs and show business...