Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later on in his testimony Douglas proved to be unaware that the Air Force recently ordered a 50% cutback in production of its 5.000-mile subsonic Snark guided...
Henry Salomon calls the TV genre that he pioneered with Victory at Sea, gets relatively little of its footage but much of its filip from private collectors such as Johnny Allen, 47, a Manhattan film technician who rides his hobby fervidly. Allen keeps in touch with 260 collectors around the world (184 in the U.S.), says: "A collector will never divulge the names of other collectors." Many are specialists, collecting only railroad shots, Ernst Lubitsch film or Tom Mix reels. Among themselves, they swap film, rarely sell it. "When we need something," says Searcher McDonough, "we send out word...
...with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch with the serious spirit of the play...
Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
...made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...