Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's new $10 million, 22-story Universal Pictures Building on Park Avenue, visitors were introduced last week to the latest elevator wrinkle. In Universal's double bank of eight elevators the Otis Elevator Co. had installed the electronic "touch" system...
Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood's colossal historian, had not lost his touch as he cast his upcoming masterwork, Samson and Delilah. For the girl he hired Hedy Lamarr; for the boy, Victor Mature...
Rivera's fiery colleague, Muralist David Siqueiros, offered a more subtle solution. Hire a Catholic painter, he suggested, to paint a mural alongside Rivera's, with the words "God is omniscient." Nobody in Siqueiros' atheistic, revolutionary crowd would touch it, he promised. The offer went untaken...
Success has given him just a touch of sophistication. The Phillies signed him up three years ago, after his one semester in junior college, for a bonus of $4,500. "I was just a kid then," he says, "and didn't know what the score was." Last week, after taking his Dad to Chicago's 606 Club (a striptease joint), he remarked offhandedly: "I've seen better in Boston...
Under the law, the hotel could not touch the mural. It was government property, in charge of the President's committee on mural painting, which happened to consist of Rivera himself, and two sympathetic colleagues: Orozco and Siqueiros. But there was no law, the hotel decided, against veiling the mural with a vast white cloth...