Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riggs, who seemed to have cracked under pressure, had won only three matches in the last 27. Says Big Jake, who has collected about $75,000 for his past three months' work: "I'm enjoying this tour. I'd be crazy to say I wasn't enjoying beating Riggs...
...Jake Kramer had finally proved that he is the best tennis player going. It was suspiciously close for the first weeks of their nationwide tour, with Big Jake winning one night and Bobby Riggs the next. People began to talk (TIME, March 1). Then Kramer's big service began to come alive...
Maggie Teyte will sing Mèlisande four more times at City Center, return to Britain for the second Edinburgh Festival in August, and then perhaps will make a farewell tour of the U.S. Says she: "Dammit all, one can't go on forever...
Flip a Coin. As puzzled at the end of his tour as at the beginning, Economist Crowther said "almost every piece of evidence can be interpreted either way." He illustrated this bothersome ambivalence with an imaginary debate between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Samples...
Selden Rodman has collected 100 American poems, ranging from the twisted, Donne-like prayers of colonial minister Edward Taylor to a fine elegy by 31-year-old Robert Lowell. To introduce the poems, Rodman has written a breathless essay which takes the reader on a dizzy, profitless tour of American poetic history. Most readers will prefer to skip Rodman's off-the-hip grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known...