Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations is something it is not." What is it, and what should it be? Next September the U.N. General Assembly must decide whether to call a conference for 1956 or 1957 to review the U.N. Charter. Senator Knowland's remarks are at least timely; they might touch off a discussion of U.N. Charter revision. His criticisms point up both the need for improving the U.N. and the difficulty of agreeing...
Anderson entitles his report, "Witch Hunt in The Ivy League." He tells how in August 1952 a friend got him in touch with the father of "Terry McGovern. The father wanted no athletic scholarship at a midwestern institution for his son, but admitted great interest in Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...Knowing my strong interest in good boys for Yale (I had been a member of the Yale Scholarship Trust of Chicago for over ten years), the friend got me in touch with the McGoverns. I was sincerely impressed with the boy personally. . . However, my enthusiasm diminished when I found his grades made him a 20-1 shot as far as Yale was concerned...
...platitude with every poultice. CBS Radio boasts Guiding Light and Young Dr. Malone as well as City Hospital, "where life begins and ends . . . where around the clock, 24 hours a day, men and women are dedicated to the war against suffering and pain." There is even room for a touch of slapstick. On CBS's Professional Father, the psychologist, that stepchild of medicine, is considered a figure...
...Medic, however, receives so many reverent letters written by sufferers from real or imagined ills that the program has called upon the Los Angeles County Medical Association for help in answering them. LACMA forwards the letters to the appropriate medical associations in the states of origin and keeps in touch with all cases, to be sure that "people are not left out on a limb." As a barometer of the nation's health, the biggest volume of letters was received after programs dealing with 1) deafness, 2) heart surgery, 3) corneal transplantation, and 4) cleft palate...