Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mario Lanza Fan Club Chicago Chapter...
...that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung in a closeup, you saw a regular rainbow of bats of varying colors. For a fraction of an instant, the moving bat became a big Japanese fan...
...Happen There. In Los Angeles, a proposed law requiring fan dancers to carry identification cards "at all times" was defeated when County Supervisor Roger Jessup asked: "Where...
...freely as his stomach, and his studio bosses have sometimes tried needling him to deflate his head as well as his hide. Whether such needling does him much good is a question. Lanza hungers for praise of his voice, and, though he gets plenty, from 500 fan letters a day and from the personal entourage of nine which he rules like a comic-opera Latin American dictator, he also supplies it himself. From idolizing Enrico Caruso as far back as his childhood, he has passed through the stages of imitating Caruso's style, impersonating him in the movies...
Breakfast in Bed. From his earliest years, living near a record shop that blared Italian opera into the street all day, Freddy was an opera fan and a tireless listener to his father's own large collection of records. At seven, he once played a Caruso record 27 times at a single sitting. But it was not until he was about 19, after dabbling unsuccessfully with piano lessons, that he began to take his own voice seriously. One summer day, listening to records in his room, he burst into a duet with Caruso. His father was a thrilled eavesdropper...