Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its heavy load of evidence, the McClellan-led caravan moved on relentlessly toward Jimmy Hoffa's door. Hoffa's Teamster career would depend directly on how much of the hot cargo he could touch without burning his fingers...
Jean Kerr is a tall (5 ft. 11½ in.),, witty free-lance writer (Harper's Bazaar, New York Times) and playwright (Touch and Go, King of Hearts) who writes mostly in her green Chevy-a sort of mobile workshop that she parks on side roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which...
Critic Kerr is tortured by the feeling that she is "out of touch culturally" and never sees the same TV that other people see. "For one thing, we have one of the first sets ever built, which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation...
...First Touch of Fame. The Kid from Harlem gave the Eatons a rough time. She hung out in a poolroom. Her table manners were so bad that the Eatons made her eat in the kitchen ("She was underfed, and it took almost a year to fill her up properly"). At first, 19-year-old Althea could not even qualify for the freshman class in high school. But she worked sternly, and she finished among the top ten in the graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea...
...championships* and got to the semifinals. (Next year she won the title.) In the National Indoor championships that same winter, she went out in the quarterfinals. When she got back to college, the band, the faculty and the student body turned out to greet her. "It was my first touch of fame," says she, "and it was wonderful...