Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
...With sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
Last week, Dr. Richard Sweet opened 61-month-old Sandy's chest, tied off the front half of the aortic ring and cut it out. The arterial blood will pass through the rear half, which is expected to grow. On the danger list for 48 hours, Sandy was in an oxygen tent, breathing more soundly and soundlessly than ever before in her short life...
...other end of the Capitol, the Administration had its sweet hour of triumph...
Family Act. The Buick-sponsored, hour-long uproar offered explosive fragments of an act the comics have been working on for 35 years. It grew from the first prop they ever used - a brass rail to support their vaudeville rendition of Sweet Adeline. Today, their hundreds of props fill three baggage cars, their cast of 90 includes 35 stooges. For all its size, the show is still essentially a family vaudeville act. Johnson's pretty daughter, June, and his son-in-law, Comic Marty May, have leading roles. So does deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen...