Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like other newsmen, sportswriters must keep in close touch with their sources. Last week the Providence Journal-Bulletin told how ten Boston sportswriters got too close. In a Page One exclusive story, the Journal-Bulletin revealed that ten men on Boston sports staffs were also on the payroll of the Salem (N.H.) Rockingham Park race track...
...research building in the city of Ahmadabad, Nehru grew stone-faced when a Brahman priest placed a tilaka mark on his forehead. The priest chanted some monotonous slokas, and Nehru began to fidget in annoyance. The Brahman then grasped the Prime Minister's shoulders and asked him to touch the wall of the building in a ceremonial gesture of blessing. At this, Nehru angrily brushed the priest aside and rasped: "I cannot stand this business!" Later, in his dedication speech, Nehru, with even more fervor than usual, told his audience that India's "old superstitions" are an evil...
Snead, meanwhile, had found his touch again. He wound up with a par 72 and posted a total score of 289. Patton, with a commendable finishing 71, was home a stroke behind. Now Hogan was forced to gamble, and still his putts refused to drop. He needed a birdie three on the 18th to win. He had to settle for a par that tied him with Slammin' Sammy Snead...
Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...
...payroll schedule. Extras die like flies; bit players are allowed to put up a fight; second leads are wounded and nobly keep telling the others to go forward and leave them to perish miserably. But the hero and heroine come through it all with little more than a touch of sweat and a careful smudge on the off-profile...