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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subpoenaed the LIFE file on a 1963 story about Cohn. Somehow, in the midst of that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received a call from Attorney General Kennedy, who offered to put him in touch with one Sam Baron, a disgruntled Teamster official who wanted to write an exposé about Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Burned Bobby | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...appearance before the committee, Bobby explained that Baron "was in fear of his life. He felt that if anything happened to him, if he was killed, he wanted to make sure his story was told. He asked me to put him in touch with somebody who would relate what he had undergone as a Teamster official. I made that arrangement. I did nothing else. Nothing, in fact, was ever published until Mr. Baron was physically beaten by Mr. Hoffa." LIFE Editor Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Burned Bobby | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...What? Committee Counsel Bernard Fensterwald Jr. tried to clarify matters. "This was an arrangement," he said, "whereby, I understand it, you were putting what would normally be described as a 'fink' in touch with TIME-LIFE to write a magazine article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Burned Bobby | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...choices, of course, had cheapened TV. But by commercial standards, he was a success, and CBS paid him a $124,000 salary, plus $100,000 bonus and an option on 65,000 CBS shares (worth $2,995,000 last week). He had the touch, or thought he did, though he was far more overbearing than a really successful man need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Regency Firing | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Arms Twisted. It might have been expected that a tough boss would be toughly sacked. But the real show-biz touch was to leave everything else to gossip and speculation. The first reaction was to invoke the adage that he who lives by the ratings can die by the ratings. A year ago, CBS's Nielsen rating lead was 22.5 to NBC's 18.8 and ABC's 17.6. But all this season the three networks have been in a near dead heat. Had Aubrey lost his magic? He had once made a purseful of profits from sows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Regency Firing | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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