Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber plant from Brazil; a vanilla tree; a plant that curls up when you touch it; a flower that eats ants; sugar cane; and a monkey-puzzle tree--supposed to be the one tree that monkey's can't climb...
...Light Touch. In Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Railroad investigated high maintenance costs, finally charged two employees with stealing 250,000 electric bulbs...
...Gambling," says Painter Graham Sutherland, "is awfully like painting. However much you know about painting there's always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...
From an artistic standpoint, "A Touch of the Times" has much so its credit. Photography has been under the direction of Hugh C. Foster '49, an Academy Award winner for his camera work on the Antarctic documentary, "Secret Land." And in place of running dialogue, an original musical score has been completed by a promising local composer. Yoder is highly enthusiastic about this music, and terms it one of the movie's biggest assets...
...matter what the critics say about "A Touch," they had better keep their pencils sharpened. Ivy plans to keep on making movies come what may, as long as the money lasts. Hollywood, beware-and the devil take J. Arthur Rank...