Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet Charity. Last week Reporter Browning's findings-a set of surprises for herself, Editor Maloney and presumably for the Trib's readers-were blazoned across the Trib's front page and on its circulation trucks. The nice-Nellie promotion men had a tough problem of finding a euphemism for the harlot Norma Browning had pretended to be, had toyed with "wayward woman," finally settled on "woman outcast...
Stacked beside it last week was Author Barnes's Home Sweet Zoo , a hasty effort to cash in on a good thing with more of the same. Just as obvious and just as funny as White Collar, Home Sweet Zoo has an even larger potential audience: the husbands and wives of the nation who have been stuck by the thorns of domestic irritation. Confident Author Barnes, who blandly assumes that White Collar will go over 500,000, thinks that Home ought to do just as well. Hopeful, but aware that the hottest fads have a saturation point, Publishers Doubleday...
...while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
Although one of his biggest-selling records was made with a band (Wee Baby Blues with Blues Singer Joe Turner), Tatum's fame has come from his solo work. "A band hampers me. I hafta watch out for them." His solo records of standard tunes (Tea for Two, Sweet Lorraine), his jazz renditions of popular classics (Massenet's Elegy, Dvorak's Humoesque), and his showcase novelties (Get Happy, 9:20 Special) are part of most jazz collections...
...rice and sweet potato fields of Okinawa creep over the slate volcanic soil, covering the shell holes and the bloodstained caves where two great armies fought for eleven weeks. Weeds cover the charred foundations of what once were neat stone houses. Near by rise clusters of lean-tos made of cloth, battered boards and castoff American corrugated iron...