Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still demurred. So finally, the Prince himself sneaked over, seized The Netherlands' Queen Juliana, 56, clad in a cocktail dress and suavely heaved her into the swimming pool at the Hotel Caravanserai on St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Thus the Dutch royal couple, on a ten-day tour of the islands, regally put everyone at ease. Prince Bernhard had already been dunked in his tux, most of the other guests had followed him in like a pack of performing Kennedys at Hickory Hill, and now all the subjects lent a hand in fishing Her Majesty...
...accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster in his car, and after several unsuccessful attempts at beating Jascha Heifetz, he has given up ping-pong. But he will take the orchestra on its first tour of Latin America this spring. Then he will move his 104 musicians into their summer home at the new $3,000,000 pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "The day I retire," says Ormandy, "will...
...Tutti Buoni." To great, deafening, farewell cheers, the papal motorcade then whisked to the World's Fair for a brief tour of the Vatican pavilion. There, visibly exhausted, the Pope stared blankly for a while at Michelangelo's Pietd in its unaccustomed setting,* gave his blessing to the modest crowd that braved the night air for a final glimpse of the Pontiff. Then he was hurried back to Kennedy Airport for the TWA flight home-14 hours after his arrival in New York...
Maybe less so. Merrick, in order to join the U.S.O. tour, had just missed the first first night of his 40 since entering show business in 1954. The show was Pickwick, and it was a critical bust (see THEATER). Smarting from the reviews, which had been phoned to him in Tokyo,* the splenetic producer tore into Herald Tribune Critic Walter Kerr with an intemperance to match Radio Hanoi. Kerr (who is a Roman Catholic), said Merrick, "panned Pickwick because the Pope was saying Mass at Yankee Stadium that night, and Walter was simply sore that...
...French of a single, unimportant ecclesiastical text. For the next nine years, surrounded by his own library of 1,000 books, he wrote the first two volumes of the Essays. Before kidney stones killed him in 1592 at 59, he produced one more volume and a journal of his tour through Italy, Switzerland and Germany. And that...