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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece's Prince Peter, 39-year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music. It is that good." Columbia Concerts, Inc., which thought so too, has signed the boys to a 140-concert tour of the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beware of Pretty Chords | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...year scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Coach Bill Barclay's charges left for their educational tour of the Mid-west over the holidays with an unimpressive record of three wins in six starts and staggered back with an even less impressive three out of nine...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...Oxford team, whose names have not yet been announced, has already been in this country two months on tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Debates Crimson January 18 Here After Interval of Two Decades | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

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