Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice on the tape recorder. "Thank you for the good things you've said about me in the past." Mary Pickford-superstar of the century's teens and 20s, whose ringlets and little-girl look and marriage to Fellow Superstar Douglas Fairbanks made her "America's Sweetheart"-was greeting reporters at her Beverly Hills mansion. But not in person. Now 77 and operated on two years ago for cataracts, she carefully stayed out of sight while her husband of 33 years, Bandleader Buddy Rogers, 64, announced the re-release of a dozen of her old silent films...
...wide-eyed lover of law ever since his childhood in Morganton, N.C. (pop. 13,000). As a boy, he hung around the Burke County courthouse watching his lawyer father argue cases dressed in Victorian cutaway tails. After graduating from Harvard Law School ('22), Ervin married his home-town sweetheart, joined his father's law firm, and polished his oratory as a young state legislator. He once quashed a bill that would have outlawed the teaching of evolution in public schools with the objection that "such a resolution serves no good purpose except to absolve monkeys of their responsibility...
Frazier settled in Philadelphia with dreams of "a lot of money, a new car and fine clothes." He took a job as a utility butcher in a kosher slaughterhouse and saved his money. Then he sent for his 15-year-old childhood sweetheart, married her and moved into a ghetto apartment. He ballooned up to 235 Ibs., so he went to a neighborhood Police Athletic League gym to pare off some weight. There he came under the paternal eye of a sometime fight manager named Yancey Durham, who recalls that Joe looked just like any other fat boy. One thing...
...tone to what otherwise might be a confusing free-for-all -namely, the Paris showings. As critiques of the latest fiasco boiled up last week, however, it was apparent that the fashion press had run totally out of patience with wispy Yves St. Laurent, long the sweetheart of haute couture...
Jeffrey MacDonald had been schooled to believe that the system treats deserving individuals justly. He was an all-American achiever who had always found his merit rewarded. An honors student at Princeton, he married his high school sweetheart, went on to Northwestern University Medical School and an internship at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. When MacDonald joined the Army as a doctor, he went after and earned a Green Beret...