Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaunt, white-haired Lawyer Mary Belle Spencer, who brought up her two daughters "to do as they please," has long been a stock figure in Chicago's news. Once she had Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand arrested when her bubble burst. During the Hauptmann trial she circularized a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. Recently Mrs. Spencer split with her doctor-husband and he went to live with their older daughter, Mrs. Mary Belle Wright, 19. Last week, shy little Dr. Spencer died, and his wife again made news. Marching to her daughter's home...
...knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill...
...successful show-woman. She makes about $750,000 a year; $250,000 a picture, $5,000 a week when touring England in vaudeville, the rest from broadcasting and royalties on gramophone records, which sell a million a year. Far more extraordinary than her income is her popularity. Answering her fan mail costs $25,000 a year. In an average week, she gets 500 requests to open bazaars, beauty contests, etc., 350 a week to read new plays, thousands a week to launch new songs. In London, Gracie Fields sometimes stops traffic, but on tour, whole towns turn out when...
Because she "did not fit into the picture of an educational institution," Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand, who two months ago told Harvard students How to Be Intelligent Though Educated (TIME, May 16), was forbidden by University of Colorado's President George Norlin to deliver a scheduled lecture on "Art and the Workers" at the University's summer school. Snapped Lecturer Rand: "I think it is, in poor taste for President Norlin to use me for publicity purposes for himself. He should hire his own press agent...
Soon little station W2XR was showered with fan mail, commending its choice of programs, asking for more. Engineer Hogan's phonographic broadcasts were obviously reaching a special type of listener whose symphonic appetite was not satisfied by the larger stations. So he decided to expand, took on a partner, acquired larger, high-fidelity broadcasting facilities, renamed his station WQXR...