Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perpetual subscribers never had to be reminded that their subscriptions were up for renewal. Nor did they have any reason for getting in touch with us beyond recording a change of address now and then or writing an occasional letter-to-the-editor. Recently it occurred to us that we knew very little about these very special readers-and we ought to know a great deal about any group which had so much faith in the then unproved TIME idea that it would accept such an offer...
...Army intelligence officer wrote: "When I subscribed, I figured this is a new slant on the news-this will succeed." A social science teacher, who used TIME in her classes, explained: "After I married and became a homemaker I needed TIME more than ever to keep me in touch with what was happening." Some just "decided to take a chance." Others felt at the time like the English professor, who said: "In 1929 or '30 I had lost what seemed to me so much money in investments that I decided I would invest $60 in TIME [with the hope...
...from the old Grand Guignol classics as a Tommy gun is from a thumbscrew. Amid knifings and kneeings, kidnaping and murder, the meaty blonde Miss Blandish (Nicole Riche) spent most of two hours in panties and bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson (Jean-Marc Tennberg). A moving touch for Grand Guignol fans: Old Ma Grisson, the boss of the gang, beats Miss Blandish into submission with a rubber hose so that Slim won't be annoyed by her cries when he rapes...
Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic) is a war picture that bristles and booms with enough clips from official combat films to give its audience a realistic touch of battle fatigue. The rest of it is just plain fatiguing; the plot has no more freshness or emotional tug than a military manual, and it is peopled by a movie-hardened cast of characters who have served too many hitches on Hollywood's back-lot battlefields...
With Army leading, 30 to 29, the vis- itors needed at least a second place in the 440-yard freestyle to stay in the meet. Bob Tolf put on a spirited last lap drive, and it was just enough to nip Joe Knittle by a touch, as Army's Jack Craigie...