Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
...London in November. Canada, the only dollar nation in the Commonwealth bloc, seems more skeptical than hopeful. Preparing for the conference last week, Ottawa took the attitude of a rich cousin invited to a family reunion-sorry for the less fortunate relatives, wary lest they make an unwelcome touch...
Every now & then Levine descends from his propaganda perch to paint a frankly personal picture. Only slightly larger than the reproduction opposite, King Saul carries no message except its touch of pathos. It is the latest of a series of Israelite kings which Levine began as a tribute to his father. The painting served as a relaxation from Levine's big, grim canvases, took years of off & on "fiddling" to finish...
...Democrats need a touch of pay-as-you-go: they have already booked $1,500,000 worth of radio and TV time for the campaign...
...down before the cameras in a CBS Manhattan television studio one night last week for half an hour of what television likes to call political debate. They began in the gentlemanly manner of statesmen, wound up at sign-off time panting like lady wrestlers. In between, they managed to touch on more pertinent-and fascinatingly impertinent-points of U.S. foreign policy than the nation has seen or heard in any single half an hour of the 1952 campaign to date. Excerpts...