Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
...prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
...They toured Europe, playing nearly 1,000 concerts. When war came they joined the R.A.F. together, and were made the official R.A.F. Quartet. Besides playing in shelters, at airdromes and in factories, they played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, and at the Potsdam conference. U.S. critics, who first heard them on a 60-concert tour of the U.S. in 1939, generally rate them among the top four or five quartets playing in this country. No other major quartet has stayed together so long...
Some examples of World Video's doings: Ilka Chase narrating a "Cook's Tour" of Paris' haute cuisine; the editors of Field &Stream collaborating on a Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...