Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bless the Child (Bea Wain; Victor). Billie Holiday's new hard-times song, sung with the appropriate lump in the throat...
...unit might never have got started had not F. Trubee Davison persuaded his reluctant father, able Harry Davison, a Morgan partner, soon to do a classic job organizing the American Red Cross for the war. Young Davison went to Washington, got a vague "God bless you!" from Josephus Daniels, got a practical letter of encouragement from Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. The First Yale Unit went ahead, while their fathers and friends put up the money for training (flying lessons then cost $1 a minute), bought them planes to train...
Early in My Life With Caroline Husband Colman confides his problem to his audience in one of the theater's oldest pieces of business, the aside. Discovering his wife rendezvousing with a curly-headed hacendado (Gilbert Roland), he invites his audience to see what his life with Caroline ("Bless her little heart") has been...
...take the air, famed Pilot Jimmy Mattern at the controls. Lady Halifax said: "May I say to you and all the good workers of Lockheed . . . the people of Britain will welcome the arrival of yet another Hudson. . . . And now your labor takes wings. Go, Jimmy Mattern, and God bless you." The plane streaked off for the Rockies, Canada, Britain and the war. Lord Halifax smiled; Lady Halifax seemed close to tears...
From the new songs, as from God Bless America, Composer Berlin will not make a penny. He has assigned full rights to the Government departments, and ASCAP has cleared the songs for free radio performance...