Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somebody's Sweetheart...
Sometimes Harold Ickes gets wistful, wonders why he is nobody's sweetheart. Said he recently: "I'm not a backslapper. I'm not a popular man and I know it. ... I'm short-tempered. I don't want yes-men around me. . . . I'm arbitrary-but I get things done." His intimate adviser, big, handsome, dark Mike Straus, interrupted: "I'll say he's arbitrary. He's ornery, hardheaded, the damnedest, most unreasonable hot-headed man you ever saw." Ickes spoke up mildly, with almost childlike eagerness, peering over the tops...
Eleanor Roosevelt, whose 15-minute chitsy-chatsy for Sweetheart Soap was sandwiched in between the early afternoon serials last year, will have a better radio spot after mid-September. Signed last week was a contract to put her on the air for a 15-minute talk every Sunday night at 6:45 E.D.S.T. for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, U.S. representative of seven Latin-American countries which produce about 90% of the coffee consumed...
Gary Cooper, the cinema's epitome of a natural American, plays Alvin York to perfection. He has admirable assistance: Mother York (Margaret Wycherly), Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), York's sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) and a first-rate supporting cast. The picture also manages to produce an almost documentary description of the meager, resourceful life of the South's mountain folk...
Undoubtedly the grimness of the war was coming home to the German people. The Russian campaign had been neither swift nor bloodless. German families without a casualty in Poland, France, the Balkans, Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...