Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Thurber's pipe-dreaming hero never imagined himself conducting a symphony orchestra, but thousands of his spiritual prototypes have. To accommodate them, RCA Victor last week issued a package that encourages the hi-fi fan to do his armchair conducting openly and with proper equipment, rather than furtively with a pencil. The package: Music for Frustrated Conductors, complete with instructions manual and a 16¾-in. baton...
...forerunner of the osteoarthritis that was to afflict him in later years. ("I had no trouble with it for 40 years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard classmates found him a bit odd, with his string-bean shape and undeviating interest in the arts. Classmates recall that he showed scant interest in the two fields where he was to win success, politics and foreign affairs. Said one old Harvard...
...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...
Marianne Purdy plays the wonderful worldly-wise French head-mistress with charm, coyly leads millionaire Percival Browne (David Pursley) about the stage with a wave of her fan. Mr. Pursley's Percival is British to the hilt, dry and witty and essentially comic, and in some scenes it's a wonder he can keep a straight face...
...Lanson. Then came rock 'n' roll. The sort of stuff that Elvis sings began to lead the Parade, and American Tobacco apparently decided that kids who listen to that brand of song are hardly sophisticated enough to smoke. After long and faithful service to the pop-music fan, Your Hit Parade will peter out this month...