Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London bartender pondered a picture of his King clad in shorts and soaking up the equatorial sun on the deck of H.M.S. Vanguard. "The papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...
...Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
George paled. But an ex-Boy Scout is good in emergencies. "Don't anybody touch this," he calmly warned the alarmed driver and passengers, "until you get a doctor." When a City Hospital ambulance arrived, the doctor found George with his hands cupped protectively over the protruding pencil haft. "Mighty smart boy," said the doctor...
...picked up as one of the founders of the experimental Group Theater and adding to it the sound showmanship she developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...
Born. To Sono Osato Elmaleh, 27, sprightly, slant-eyed, Japanese-Irish-American ballerina (One Touch of Venus, On the Town), and Victor Elmaleh, 28, French Morocco-born architectural designer: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Niko. Weight...