Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President of the College's only film industry, William L. Alden '50, explains that the present shooting schedule is "plenty rugged," but that if the rains will hold off, the "Touch of the Times," Veritas' current production, may be finished by June...
TIME'S human touch last summer in presenting Mormon Leader Smith as "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth" drew apt approval in Letters. Now in a single issue [March 29] we find Music-Maestro Ormandy and Ball-Bingler Crosby popping peppermint and peanuts into their mouths...
...comfortably furnished suite numbered 822. A lot of Kansas Citians call 822 "the unofficial capital of Kansas." It is a club-within-a-club with only 36 members, all bigwig Missourians or Kansans. (Harry Truman, an infrequent guest who was regarded by Roberts as a soft touch at its big green poker table, was made an honorary member after he became President...
...using," he explained, "equipment belonging to the members, but we hope to buy our own sound cameras, with receipts from sale of the films." Undergraduates groups at Yale, Dartmouth, and Smith have already indicated a desire to show "Touch of the Times...
...plot of "Touch of the Times" stems from a factory worker's loss of his girl to a fellow worker. He seeks solace in flying a kite and remains apart. Soon the other factory workers follow suit, and everyone is flying kites. When the factory issues on edict against kite-flying, everyone goes back to his job except the hero, who just continues flying his kite and is immensely happy...