Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny Goodman plays occasional weekend dates, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey have combined their bands, Artie Shaw is out of the music business, Cab Galloway is appearing as a solo singing act. Such sweet-music bandleaders as Guy Lombardo and Sammy Kaye, however, are still going strong...
...British were, President Eisenhower ordered Secretary Dulles to London forthwith. The Big Three found their roles ironically reversed. Two years ago the British and French had sounded the alarm at U.S. "sabre-rattling" during the Indo-China crisis of Dienbienphu. Then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had counseled the sweet uses of restraint and diplomacy. Now it was Eden's government that talked of military action. Now it was the British, despite their past jeering at Dulles' "brinksmanship," who hovered in anger around the brink...
...Sweet-Scented Clubs. As for the fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later...
...charmed a pretty brunette French teacher and accomplished skier named Collette Thomas into marriage. They lived in "a series of ghastly, sordid rooms and flats," while he scrabbled up the drawing-room-comedy ladder. Then in 1936 he made his Broadway debut in Sweet Aloes and hit the top. Back in London he starred in French Without Tears, Design for Living, No Time for Comedy. Then, to "get a bit of money," Harrison temporarily left the stage for movies (a medium he dislikes), met George Bernard Shaw himself in the course of making Major Barbara...
...Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naiveté of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March...