Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happily and horribly around Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, ruled that the SymPhony could no longer play for free (two of the seven-man band are A.F.M. union members). Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz, known as "Brooklyn's No.1 Baseball Fan," promised to mediate. Said he: "I'm 100% for unions, but these people are not musicians. [Their] loss would rob Brooklyn fans of one of the most important emotional experiences they can have." ¶ West Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, 42, still playing the sweeping all-court game...
...high spirits, he dispelled all the misery in the immediate vicinity by bursting out of his studio dressing room, clad only in an athletic supporter, and raced hilariously around the set, while girls fled in all directions. Though Mario's literary preferences lean to body-building and movie-fan magazines, his uninhibited zest for startling pranks sometimes seems inspired by the gustier tales of Chaucer...
...course, this is the idle speculation of a disappointed Giant fan. The 11-game losing streak cannot be erased, and Gerry Staley will go on beating New York forever...
Arnold Raymond Cream, who fights under the name of Jersey Joe Walcott, is a first-rate boxer, and he can hit. Many a fan who saw him fight Joe Louis in 1947 (he knocked Louis down in the first round, nearly knocked him out in the fourth) thought Jersey Joe got a raw decision then. In the 21 years he has been bouncing around the fight game, Jersey Joe has had a lot of tough breaks. In all, Joe tried four times against Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. Last week in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field before the largest fight...
...also went home to a triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...