Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...50th anniversary of a high note, Andres Segovia's first U.S. tour, and, as part of the celebration, the classical guitarist played before a sellout audience of 3,200 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
Well, it was a one-way romance, and maybe Billy Joel is getting a little of his own back. Now is certainly the time for it; since a wide-ranging, heavily attended concert tour and the release last September of his fifth album, The Stranger, the returns have been heavy, and all flowing in his direction. The album glided into the Top Five this week, and it has long since gone way past platinum (1 million copies sold) with ease...
...major golf tournaments. Together they have won four U.S. Open tournaments, nine P.G.A. Championships, six Masters and two British Open titles. They are enshrined in the Professional Golfers Association's Hall of Fame. Last week they added their names to a list of plaintiffs suing the P.G.A. Tour in state district court in Houston...
...rule change. He entered 20 tournaments last year, but played so poorly that he never finished higher than 47th place, and his total money earnings were just $828. Yet each time he competed, a spot in the draw had to be denied to one of the rabbits. P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman explains: "An exemption that was unlimited in duration and had no relationship to current abilities was unreasonable. It denied the opportunity for someone else to be able to compete...
...oldtimers. Tom Watson, last year's Masters champion and No. 1 money winner, asserts: "There are certain players who cannot compete with the younger players, but I can't see rescinding the whole lifetime exemption because of those two or three guys. These people helped make the tour. There's no way you can take away their exemption after the fact. They won it, plain and simple, and it's theirs...