Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lemann, playing fifth, came back after dropping the first set to beat Don LeWin, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, in one of the afternoon's most interesting matches. Wood, at number six, ran right through "patballer" and retriever Ed Mills in the opening set, then inexplicably lost his touch and had to rally before winning...
When Actress Kim Stanley quit the cast of A Touch of the Poet, Eugene O'Neill's current Broadway hit (TIME, April 6), it was rumored that she was feuding with Broadway's First Lady Helen Hayes (Kim's mother in the play). Fed up with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe...
...gallows humor that sometimes sounds as if its author were not really sure what takes place at a hanging, the book trots on amiably enough. The pigeons of the title belong to spies, and Heroine Lady Sophia Garfield has some rousing cloak-and-dagger experiences. The most amusing touch is a supposed renegade who shatters the morale of Britain's pet-lovers by broadcasting that "few dogs and no cats carried gas masks, and gas-proof cages for birds and mice were the exception rather than the rule. The animal first-aid posts were scandalously few and ill-equipped...
President De la Guardia's government is worried that even a small band of invaders might touch off a full-scale revolt. The government also has been increasingly jumpy over reports that a new band, numebring perhaps as many as 300 men, is en route by ship from Cuba...
...thousand people, by far the largest crowd of the season, watched the two clubs struggle to a scoreless tie in the first half. The Crimson suffered a harsh disappointment when wing forward Dave Kiely dribbled the ball over the Indians' goal line only to be tackled before he could touch it down...