Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using an infrared ray, he pops pop corn without burning the cellophane container. Last week, Herbert explained the importance of air speed to a pilot, by tying a paper plane to an electric fan and showing how it rose and fell in relation to the speed of the fan...
...many friends, "has more on the ball than Hubbell." To those for whom this quotation is meaningless, this book will have little interest, for it is a series of three articles, reprinted from the New Yorker, describing New York's most fabulous saloonkeeper and sports fan...
...shrieking blonde ripped the big tackle's shirt from his shoulder and Charlestoned off through the crowded room, fan-dancing with a ragged sleeve. In her wake, shirts fell in shreds on the floor, until half the male guests roared around bare to the waist. Shouts and laughs rose above the full-volume records from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The party, celebrating the departure of a University of Texas coed who had flunked out, had begun in midafternoon some three hours earlier. In one corner, four tipsily serious coeds tried to revive a passed-out couple with more salty...
Busy as ever shaking up the old Met, Rudolf Bing announced last week that he will have 16 new singers this season, and two one-shot directors from Broadway: Alfred Lunt (Cosi Fan Tutti) and the Old Vic's Tyrone Guthrie (Carmen). Bing's new roster ended with dancers, and the name of a new premiere danseuse, New Orleans-born Janet Collins, of last season's Broadway show, Out of This World. That was where the reporters found their headlines. In the 68-year history of the Met, Premiere Danseuse Collins is the first Negro to become...
...crowds that flowed out of Manhattan's subways and clotted the intricate ramps into Yankee Stadium last week for the series opener were curiously subdued. The Yankee fan is always confident, never vociferous. His team was a far cry from the great Yankee teams of the past. Only one man-Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald-was hitting over .300. But the Yankees had one supreme asset: they always expected to win, and acted that way. Giant fans seemed too emotionally exhausted by the blazing pennant finish to care much about what happened next...