Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...client. All you could build in the law business was a personal reputation I have never been particularly interested in merely building a personal reputation. In business you develop a mine or a plant, or an entire industry. I was more interested in building something you could see or touch...
...diplomacy and the cultivation of friends in high places all around the world. Franklin Roosevelt died on the eve of a scheduled appointment in which Lieut. Commander Fairbanks, U.S.N.R., was to have explained a plan to smuggle Doug and Allied agents by submarine into Japan, there to get in touch with the Dowager Empress (an old Fairbanks friend) and thus end the war. "The only way to plan a combined operation peacefully," said one British admiral, "is to include Fairbanks in the project from the start...
That was the starting point for TIME'S Paris bureau when they were asked to find the author himself. The American Express office was holding letters for Wilder, but didn't know where he was. Correspondent Fred Klein got in touch with the American Embassy, Paris publishers and others, finally received word that Wilder could probably be found at Saint-Moritz...
Great Expectations. As inauguration day grew near last week, however, hundreds of Washingtonians had high hopes for a change not only in the capital's political atmosphere but in that of the White House itself; Mamie Eisenhower is fondly expected to touch off a social renaissance and to lend a new warmth to the affairs of the presidency...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...