Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Dr. Andrewes: "We strongly suspect that catching a cold in real life depends on receiving quite a small dose of virus at a time when one's defenses are momentarily off their guard-looking the other way." What the defenses are, exactly, Dr. Andrewes has no idea...
...finds a pretty corpse in a cheap hotel is moved to track down the people in her fat address book and find out how she came to her sordid end. After Reporter Ladd finally "winds up the case," there are at least two unexplained murders and a heroine whose life story is still pretty much of a mystery. The journalistic technique constantly threatens to make the movie a good study of sleazy big-city life, but the story bogs down under the weight of flashbacks, synthetic mobsters and Gallup poll detection methods...
...years, while Franklin Roosevelt's housekeepers and bodyguards, speechwriters and Cabinet members have been carrying their manuscripts to the publishers, his widow has said little about him beyond some references in her syndicated newspaper column. In This-I Remember, she tells her story of the Roosevelts' private life in the White House...
...Time for Advice. Her pictures of the private life of the Roosevelts are among the best in the area of "things nobody else can know." Every morning when she was home, Mrs. Roosevelt called on the President in his room after breakfast ; if he was too busy reading the newspapers she left without disturbing...
Otherwise they met at meals, usually with several guests present, or at receptions, with several hundred. Life for the President became so crowded that his sons soon gave up going to their father for advice; he seldom had time to talk with them at any length...