Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allure that sets the mysterious Geiger counters which measure glamor clicking like subway turnstiles. Says Starmaker David Selznick: "She is going to be a big star. She supplies the need and hunger of a kind of glamor girl. She has a genuine glamor atmosphere." Says an Italian movie fan: "I call her the aperitif. She stimulates...
Like many another track fan, Dr. R. W. Parnell, physician in charge of Oxford's student health service, has often wondered what makes one athlete better than another. The obvious generalities didn't satisfy him. Hefty, well-muscled specimens usually make better shot-putters than the long, lanky types that might be high jumpers. Good runners usually have large hearts and slow pulses. But are there certain inborn physical characteristics that make one athlete a miler and another a dash man, one athlete a champion-and another an also...
...from Mars, this scene at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills might have appeared like a frenzied ballet, in which no performer stood out, no individual could be distinguished. As any tennis fan could have told him, however, every one was different, and only a few were worth watching...
...fans write glowing letters to him from all over the world. One fan who did more than write: Phyllis Pinkerton, 26, who came from Wisconsin to study with Lennie. When she inherited $10,000 recently, she invested it in Tristano, who rented a loft over an old garage, soundproofed the walls, installed recording equipment and a piano. There Tristano and members of his sextet teach some 35 pupils, will soon begin recording on their own label...
...Rudolf Bing, a Wozzeck fan, showed up for the general rehearsal. Wrote New York Times Critic Howard Taubman: "It is to be hoped that he will take his courage in his hands and follow in Salzburg's footsteps...