Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good will and learning tour was planned in 1939 but was delayed ten years by the war. This year's 29 students were chosen from a total of 300 who applied for the chance to make the trip...
Twenty-nine Austrian students arrive is Cambridge today for their third stop in a seven-month tour of American and Canadian universities...
...despite the risks, the expense and the wear & tear on its most precious commodities, Hollywood is convinced that the personal-appearance tour is here to stay-at least until the box office flourishes again. Explained a press-agent last week: -"You can't just let your product go into a theater casually any more...
...once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first-aid stations...
...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...