Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Sweet." Back in London after the war, Philip, now 6 ft. 2 in. and handsome, was one of the most popular bachelors at Mayfair parties. The Navy gave him shore duty at Corsham in Wiltshire, instructing seamen in current events and swimming. Many an evening Philip spent in the "local," The Methuen Arms, playing darts and taking good-naturedly a mild joshing from the townsmen on reports of his romance with the Princess...
...years. But for little Minnie Harnish, the meek, blonde daughter of a fisherman, there was only one who counted. He was a big (6 ft. 3 in.) Royal Marine named David Cecil Boyes. Minnie and David met at a party one, night in September 1944, when David had shore leave from H.M.S. Berwick. For Minnie it was love "at first sight." As for David, he loved her "more than the service...
When the Berwick sailed for home a few days after the party, her complement was minus a Royal Marine. Picked up by a shore patrol and shipped home, David has never seen Minnie again. But he has never stopped trying. Once he got back to Halifax as a stowaway on a troopship, but he was caught before he could see Minnie. In three other tries, always as a stowaway, he was caught once in Port Said (he had thought the ship bound for Halifax), twice in Le Havre...
When it comes to music, U.S. college kids know what they like. In Billboard's ninth annual college poll, out last week, they still preferred sweet to swing, had the same favorite girl singers (Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee) and liked the same swing band (Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first...
...first U.S. record out (If My Heart Had a Window, I Want to Be Loved) and another due next week, Beryl faced the Broadway bobby-sox brigade, which decides a popular singer's fate* in the big and noisy Strand theater. To most soxers, she was a Shore dimly seen, but with a smooth timbre and phrasing of her own. Variety reported that "her click is unmistakable ... a definite new song personality." Sighed Beryl, who is a fresh, friendly but slightly reserved girl offstage: "I do hope they like me; I don't want to have...