Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edinburgh registry office, Inverchapel (65) remarried fortyish Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, whom he had first married in 1929 when he was envoy to Chile. His wife was known to her Santiago friends as "Sweet Candy." Inverchapel divorced her in 1945 (for desertion, in 1941, when he was Ambassador to China...
Leneman's Sunday art, which went on exhibition in a Los Angeles gallery last week, is as rich, sweet and indigestible as a double fudge sundae with caramel sauce. His cakey circus clowns, blobbed Bible scenes and dripping bouquets made many gallerygoers smile. But fellow artists were impressed. "How," they kept asking, "does he get his effects...
...records, Funt and six assistants get to work editing out the dull talk and splicing together their show. Every two-minute sequence requires 14 hours of blue-penciling, often as many as 100 splices. When an angry victim breaks into profanity, a Funt-inspired device dubs in a sweet feminine voice which whispers, "Censored . . . censored . . . censored...
...Sweet Revenge. In Schenectady, a bar fly, refused a drink for being too deep in his cups, staggered furiously out of Wahl's Grill, returned a few minutes later, plunked a hive full of honey bees...
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...