Word: heartthrob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Nancy Mitford's bestselling Pursuit of Love, published three years ago, especially pleased two groups of U.S. readers: 1) heartthrob hunters who panted with pleasure over Pursuit's hot Paris romance; 2) determined esthetes who gleefully bang their teacups whenever the sharp, wry tongue of their cult leader, Evelyn Waugh, wags through a new writer's prose. Group One will shiver in dry-eyed disappointment over Love in a Cold Climate, Miss Mitford's hot-weather novel for 1949. Group Two will fare better-if they can take their Waugh watered...
Playwright Sacha Guitry, the 62-year-old Noel Coward of Paris, took on a new chore for Luxembourg radio listeners, Guitry, and his sponsor. From Paris the much-married jack-of-all-theatrics would make small-talk in his plush, bedroomy voice for 15 minutes a week. The old heartthrob's sponsor: Scandale Corsets...
...1920s, Zik stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have his tongue in his cheek...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt herself-dowager head of the Vanderbilts, portly queen of Manhattan society from way back, and now pushing 80-blossomed in the gossip columns as a heartthrob item. There had been nothing so sensational since she took to wearing hats after years of allegiance to a "headache band...
...when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...