Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allen's Touch. In 1944 Allen attended the Democratic Convention and was one of a handful of backroom movers and shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that...
...castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning and broke 100 for the first time. "They wouldn't believe us," he recalls, adding with a slightly acid touch: "And I was putting them all out that day, toe." Palmer also fell into the habit of acting out a dream of the future by describing his play aloud to an empty green: "Arnold Palmer now lines up a putt on the 36th hole. He pauses. The gallery is quiet...
...Ninotchka (ABC), a new version of Hollywood's 1939 Greta Garbo classic about a dehumanized female commissar who goes to France on official duty and turns into a woman under the warm touch of Paris. While hindered by a plot that is out of date in this age of itinerant dictators and a so-so performance by Actor Gig Young, the show was carried along on the sense and sensuality of Actress Maria Schell, whose eyes alone contain more sex than all the perfumed jades of Hollywood...
...lease his theaters; he operates them. "We knew the product." he says, "and we wanted to see it the best in the city-in decor, air conditioning, treatment of customers-so we had to become operators." A devoted theatergoer himself, Dowling has helped back critical successes (J.B., A Touch of the Poet} as well as box-office hits (Redhead, The Sound of Music...
...pour forth. He talks of a vast redevelopment of Harlem's slums, a shopping center-mall in Dallas, a development project in Arizona that he hopes to make even bigger than Sterling Forest. Recently he submitted a plan to provide industrial Akron with a new civic center. One touch was characteristic. There would be a businessmen's luncheon club, but to reach it, businessmen would have to go through the art museum. Thus, says Dowling with a grin, "whether they want to be or not, they will be exposed to the finer things in life...