Word: enthusiasts
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DIED. John H. Hammond, 76, jazz and blues enthusiast and legendary musical talent scout who helped popularize, among others, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen; in New York City. An heir to the Vanderbilt fortune, Hammond haunted night clubs and jazz joints for some 50 years, unearthing and promoting his musical discoveries, who also included Billie Holiday and Lester Young, mostly for Columbia Records...
CAMERON HAPPENS to be a gun enthusiast. In interviews he can go on and on about calibres and muzzle velocities, incessantly rattling off brand names and model years. In his films he'll glide the camera lovingly over the polished aluminum and gleaming steel; he'll make them central characters. Rambo's trusty bow was a Cameron invention, and for Aliens, Cameron designed the "smart-guns" and "pulse-rifles" himself. That explains the sport shop scene...
...magic--and tinancial potential--of the backwards maxim has not been lost on Joe Bertagna '73, one-time Harvard hockey goalie and Harvard sports enthusiast...
Such excess, suggests Serpell, leads to the still prevalent view that demonstrative affection for animals is peculiar, if not unnatural. In 16th century Europe, women who talked to animals ran the risk of being incinerated for witchcraft. Today the ardent pet enthusiast is suspected of being a closet misanthrope. Not necessarily. The author's reading of available data tends to a more positive interpretation: "a vague suggestion that some pet-owners, for reasons which are unclear, may have a greater desire for company and friendship and because of this use their pets to augment what they already derive from...
...rules. Reagan's 707 has 1,024,897 miles and 42 countries on it. A lobbying effort for this big bird was mounted back in Lyndon Johnson's time by the Air Force, the Secret Service, the White House aides, the media and the aviation experts. Said a Boeing enthusiast: "I want to see our President land around this world in the biggest and best America has." Added a former Air Force One pilot: "The President should be able to take off in Washington and turn right or left and get there on one tank of gas -- Moscow or Peking...