Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elsie Janis (real name: Bierbower), 65, bright star of Broadway and the London music halls during World War I and the early '20s, first big-name American entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in France ("The Sweetheart of the A.E.F."), oldtime cinemactress (A Regular Girl), author (So Far, So Good; Love Letters of an Actress); following surgery for perforated ulcers; in Beverly Hills Calif...
...crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often said, "but my real romance is my work." There was never any doubt of that...
...tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, St. Louis Blues, Over There and God Bless America...
Hypotenuse. In Paris, Polydore Muyelle 70, got a 13-month suspended prison term after he stabbed and wounded his 60-year-old sweetheart, explained indignantly to the court: "She preferred that horrible...
...Crosby; Decca, 3 LPs). The sequel to Crooner Crosby's last Decca album, consisting of original recordings made between 1934 and 1949. The title is a bit pretentious for even such a yellowed parchment as Crosby, but it does contain some rare items, e.g., Dear Old Girl, Someday, Sweetheart, It's the Dreamer...