Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young in Heart. In Meridian, Miss., citizens turned out to welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...
From a political standpoint, judging by the crowd's reception, Wallace's Southern tour had been a great success. He and his speechwriters had whipped 48,000 New Yorkers into a state of near frenzy. But had they done more than deepen the prejudices which they were trying to overcome...
...Harry Truman set off on the first leg of his campaign itinerary, Candidate Tom Dewey kept his own plans strictly to himself. The only word from Republican headquarters was the announcement that Running Mate Earl Warren would take off next week for a ten-day tour through twelve Western and border states...
...photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force. There is not a single cut in the film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept...
Medicine v. Mozart. U.S. music fans have heard Boyd Neel's orchestra only on records, if at all. Last year his 21-piece string group crossed the U.S. en route to Australia, but they flew across the U.S. in silence on a world tour, with their instruments in bond...