Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Ermine. The dinner was pleasant enough, but it was just a starter. Afterward, everybody got into limousines again, bound for an art show at Manhattan's Asia House, to which Jackie and Galbraith had each lent some of their North Indian paintings. After a 45-minute tour of the exhibit, the group was off to the Sign of the Dove, a Third Avenue restaurant that Jackie and her friends had taken over for the evening and turned into a discothèque decorated with life-sized photographs of Galbraith, who is 6 ft. 8 in. tall. Someone nicknamed...
...putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty...
...powers of the inscrutable Occident and its music. Whenever Japan's scholarly Prince Mikasa, 49, youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, hears the screechings of a U.S. hillbilly tune, he sheds his coat and happily stomps around like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug...
...That refrain, hope fully, will be echoed elsewhere when the company strikes out next week in four buses and five 40-ft. vans to tour 70 cities. The christening in Indianapolis was symbolic. "We felt very strongly," explains Risë Stevens, who with Michael Manuel is co-manager of the troupe, "that if we were going to be a national company, we should start right in the center of the country...
...with a 72-hole total of 273, which put him 15 under par and three strokes ahead of Dave Marr. The $6,600 top money boosted his season's winnings to $134,045, a new alltime record. That makes $409,238 for Jack in four years on the tour-only a season or so away from Palmer's $600,000-plus, total pro winnings...