Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...
...week after the rescue. Dr. Kris -a former G.P. who now specializes in anesthesiology-visited Benny at Bayview Hospital until the boy recovered from a touch of pneumonia. He was photographed with Benny and widely praised for having saved the boy's life. Last week Dr. Kris, 58, rudely shocked the U.S., which tends to hero-worship its doctors, by sending Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hooper Sr. a bill for professional services. The Hoopers make $5,460 a year, he as a highway department truck driver, she as a telephone operator. Amount of the bill...
Citation: "We honor you today as one who explores the upper planes of man's mind, and yet who remains of the world and can communicate the beauty of life's gifts to those whom you touch...
...preferred man-made scenery to nature, turned his back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return home to Amsterdam). His ascetic dryness kept women at a distance. The only feminine touch in his studio was an artificial tulip, surrounded by leaves painted white...
Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history...