Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Hand, Sure Touch. Neil McElroy's great advantage is that he has clear and specific authority for cleaning up the Pentagon mess. A few weeks ago President Eisenhower called him in and told him to get the job done-no matter how. Said the President of the U.S.: "You have a free hand...
...free hand has been used with an encouragingly sure touch. Hardly had McElroy taken office than he removed the freeze on overtime work-an economy measure-in the ballistic missile program. He restored $170 million for research and development, released $400 million, mostly for Air Force procurement (another $300 million is to be released in the second half of fiscal 1958). It seemed unbelievable to McElroy that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian secretaries were so split that the U.S. has no overall war plan under which service roles and missions are definitely parceled out. He made...
...find nothing cooks like a Tappan range. This portable sewing machine features an automatic lubricator; for entertaining in the home you'll love using this Gallo rollcart. This Samsonite luggage is the first luggage made of magnesium." There was the "Underwood portable with the golden touch," HIS and HERS golf bags (Shirl: "I promise to lose"), "famous carpets from the looms of Mohawk," a poodle from a "famed" Peekskill kennel, then Keenan Wynn in a scene from Wagon Train. "Do I turn my back on the camera?" asked Actress Shirl incredulously as she mounted the "staircase" to toss...
Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...
Curiously, the season's other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying...