Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
Facts & Figures. She had been found guilty, not of succumbing to the temptations of professional tennis, but merely of inquiring about them. A month ago in Manhattan, Pauline Betz had asked friends how well a pro tour with ex-Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke would draw. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, wrote a brazenly open letter to 1,200 tennis clubs here & abroad, suggesting that Pauline and Sarah might be willing to play on their courts for a small fee-say, $350 on weekdays and $500 on weekends. In natural bewilderment-for even a tennis amateur is not allowed...
...first orchestra (organized even before the city) was a group of 13 Indians trained by Spanish friars in 1827. San Francisco's present symphony has 100 members, and is generally recognized as the best in the West. Last week it appeared in Manhattan, on the most extensive tour ever undertaken by a U.S. symphony...
...long tour which Monteux calls "10,000 miles of music," the orchestra traveled in a ten-car special train...
Says Monteux: "If the orchestra is on tour or not on tour they have to play every day. A three-hour rehearsal is much more tiring than an hour-and-a-half performance. They take this as sort of a vacation...