Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where his bureau is located. The other 21 are string correspondents. These journalists, many of whom are pictured on the map below, cable some 19,000 words of news research to us each week. Eleanor Welch, Assistant Chief of Foreign Correspondents and a veteran reporter herself, keeps in constant touch with them by letters and cables and drops by to see them on an annual working visit. Miss Welch also coordinates their assignments with the work done by Bill White, former Rio Bureau Chief who now covers the Washington end of TIME'S Latin American Stories...
...producers who can still pursue Hollywood's ancient slogan: "The more you spend, the more you make." For the climax of Samson and Delilah (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949), he smashed his enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel and wood amid the crescendo of injured humans and screams of caged animals...
Charging that bad recruiting of students, including false promises to athletes by misinformed alumni, is the biggest source of irritation, the committee proposes revisions in the present admissions system. These aim at keeping recruiting alumni in closer touch with the administration and undergraduates...
...Golden Touch. Damned Old Crank is a hodge-podge of Scripps's autobiographical recollections, and one of the most eccentric handbooks to success ever written by a moneymaking...
...hated school, liked the poetic parts of the Bible, but had no interest in religion or "that stupid automaton, the preacher." Work he always hated ("Never do anything today that you can put off till tomorrow"), but the golden touch never deserted him. When he left the farm to go to Detroit at 18, it was to learn the drugstore business. He quit at the.end of the first week when he learned his apprentice wage: 50? a week. Within a year he was circulation manager of the Detroit News and, thanks to his commissions, was making more than the owners...