Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he arrived at the Los Angeles airport, the merchandiser telephoned his home office to get in touch with the inventor and see if the needle really worked. When it came to the attention of the promotion head of A. & S., she knew exactly what the merchandising manager was talking about. She had read the identical item in TIME on the train returning from her vacation in Florida, and was equally excited about...
...Touch football and volleyball are the only sports Kirkland has won, but it has never finished worse than fourth in any sport. The Deacon record shows a tie for first in football and seconds in basketball (combined A and B League point totals), fencing, and wrestling...
Beetle-browed Vince Foster was not a thoughtful young man in spite of the perplexed look that always lay on his battered countenance. But he had a wicked punch, and the little touch of meanness that puts a razor edge on a fighter. In prize rings around Omaha, he stood wide-legged, off-balance and clumsy, but he still knocked out twelve of the first 20 opponents that faced him. Out of the ring, Vince was just as rugged; in the course of a brawling youth, he once gave the marshal of Rulo, Neb. two black eyes with one punch...
...arranging. Each keeps in mind the special talents of the other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
...Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...