Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now, the club's treasury is getting a financial transfusion thanks to the unusual success "A Touch of the Times" has had so far. Still unseen by the public, "A Touch" has been snatched up for international amateur film distribution, professional showings, and television broadcasts. This sort of stuff just doesn't happen to silent movies unless they are exceptional...
First. "A Touch of the Times" was financed on less that $2000, with a final cost per foot so low that Hollywood could well stand to take a lesson. And secondly, as an undergraduate organization, Ivy is doing much to increase respect nationally for student ability and professionalism. So far, Ivy's company at Harvard has been probably the most successful of college movie clubs...
Proef of the pudding won't really come until next tall. At that time a world premiere of "A touch," with all the trappings, is scheduled for the University Theater. Up to now, the "critics" haven't gotten at the film and faith in the film shown by commercial distributors may belie its merits. Come what way, the Harvard audience will be first to find...
...grain speculator, treasurer of the party (1942-45), whom Truman once nominated for Under Secretary of the Navy, an appointment he had to withdraw because of senatorial opposition. Pauley raised a lot of West Coast oil money. Seldom seen around the White House any more, he keeps in touch by long-distance telephone...
...Mischief. After a game, fans queue up at locker-room doors just to glimpse or touch the hero who kicked a goal. But where U.S. big-league baseballers make a minimum of $5,000 a year (and on up to $90,000), soccer stars who bring as high as $95,000 when sold on the open market get a top salary of about $56 a week, plus $8 bonuses for every game won. The British encourage their stars to have an off-season job. "It keeps a man out of mischief," said Robert Williamson, a Scottish football official. "It doesn...