Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...
...grubby, sad-faced gamin wearing an old sweater, patched pants and dirty sneakers, and carrying a slingshot, was packing them in last week in Montreal. He is known to all of French-speaking Canada as "Fridolin," whose annual revues, begun in 1938, have become the joy of French-speaking Montreal and Quebec. His real name-Gratien Gélinas-has faded into the background, as has the fact that he was once the most popular artist on the Canadian, radio. This season's Fridolinons, now running in Montreal, looks like the most successful ever...
...bleak day in December 1941 when Don Ascanio Colonna, the titled, haughty Italian Ambassador to the U.S., walked out of his embassy, Antonino Celotto was very sad. Faithful Antonino, who had served four ambassadors as embassy caretaker, had watched white-faced Don Ascanio burning the embassy's papers. Now Italy, at war with the U.S., had cut the last bond...
Another Day. Things would slowly improve, the wreckage would be cleared, the mains repaired. But this week, as Manila straightened to contemplate its destiny, the future still looked little brighter than the sad, smoke-stained vistas...
...shadows of Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...