Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That a weekly copy of TIME was available to our voyaging Canadian in the major cities of his continental tour is cause for some pride and considerable effort on the part of TIME-LIFE International, which publishes and distributes TIME'S four overseas editions. For TIME'S circulation abroad is governed not only by reader interest and knowledge of English, but by a host of factors known to every U.S. foreign trader. Chief among them-because of the world-wide dollar shortage-are foreign government exchange controls and import restrictions...
...million, six-year program for OIC was proposed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, one of the few Republicans who had fought the curtailment. Recently returned from a tour of 22 European nations, he told the committee: "We are filling their stomachs while the Communists are filling their minds...
Chep Morrison became an enthusiastic ambassador of good will. He set up a department of international relations at City Hall, enlisted unofficial ambassadors to represent New Orleans in Latin American capitals. Before he was inaugurated, he rushed off south on a good-will tour. In the past year and ten months, he has made six trips to South America, Central America and the West Indies, averaging at least a speech a day, shaking hands, warming up everyone with his ingratiating smile, sometimes impulsively handing out advice which South Americans did not ask for. Some South Americans were a little nonplussed...
...formidably bearded Swiss musician first came to the U.S. as an orchestra leader, accompanying a dancer. When her tour folded, he wound up in Manhattan, where he used to impress friends by accompanying himself on the piano while he sang passionate cello passages from his own Schelomo. That was 30 years...
...curtain-raiser is in the familiar Coward tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree...