Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment-what Edwards calls "attunement." "We get in tune with the spirit people. They receive information that we can give them, and they direct the healing." When it was over. Healer Edwards advised the woman's husband: "No reason why she shouldn't get better. Keep in touch with me. Look after her." No fee is asked, but at the door is a plate for contributions...
...more efficient by mail. Each morning an average 2,500 letters arrive, to be opened and acknowledged by a staff of 40 healthful helpers. By the mysterious process of attunement, healing begins at the moment when Edwards or one of his assistants reads the letter. "In absent healing, we touch most of those people when they are asleep," Edwards explains. "We help children who are too young to have faith...
...stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...
...significance of today's victory can be measured only by someone who sat here three years ago and watched the low point of Harvard football. Captain Carroll Lowenstein had been drafted the week before and Columbia had humiliated the Crimson 35 to 0. The Big Red added the final touch by not only defeating Harvard 42 to 6, but breaking the arm of the succeeding captain, Red Wylie, who was lost for the season. The next week the Crimson upset Army 22 to 21, however, and has been climbing to football respectability ever since...
...cars was laid up. It could all be cleared up, she told a court, if Astor would merely let her forget at the rate of $1,000 a week. To make matters worse, Dolly no sooner walked off the ship than she walked out on Astor and got in touch with her attorneys. The tabloids spread broad hints that she too was more interested in the money than the man. "This was not a happy honeymoon," was the sorrowful conclusion of one of Astor's friends. "There was tension even before it started . . . Dolly was inclined to be morose...