Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...
Striving to persuade housewives to do more home baking, the Pillsbury Co. has given away more than $1,000,000 in baking-contest prizes, many of them for gooey concoctions that would dull even the sweet tooth of a teenager. Last week, in a pleasant change of menu, the grand prize in Pillsbury's annual national baking contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte...
...program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite of the fact that he really is a patate, he is quite evidently more interested in doing dirt to ol' Gladstone than in doing good to any-body...
...Labor Day weekend, a pop lyricist named Charles Grean (The Thing, Sweet Violets) was placidly cruising Long Island Sound in his 26-ft. skiff when he was struck by an inspiration. "With this hoop craze," he thought, "there's bound to be a song. Somebody ought to move fast!" Grean raced ashore and started to move. Next day he took his already completed lyrics around to his pal, Composer Bob Davie, and within an hour the two of them had batted out "a simple little teenage song with a good rock 'n' roll melody," named it Hoopa...
...Smell," said Mr. Flentrop, pushing the pipe under a by-stander's nose. "Never again will you smell anything so sweet from an organ pipe...