Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes, prefers the kind of cracks that grow suddenly and spontaneously out of ordinary situations. For the first five minutes of his show, he simply sits and chews over whatever happens to be on his fast-moving mind. Then he wanders around, reads (and makes appropriate cracks at) his fan mail, eats delicacies sent in by women fans, chats with members of the audience, plays the piano or other instruments, brings on guest performers, acts out "sight gags," e.g., chatting with Wanda the Walking Doll, interviewing a man while slung over his back...
...Hacienda Pasteje, famed bull-breeding ranch near Mexico City, he spent a memorable Sunday. Years ago, wearing the short Andalusian suit of an aficionado práctico (practicing fan), Plaza had fought bulls as an amateur in Ecuador. Now a non-practicing fan, he sat in a jeep on rolling fields, to watch the artful passes at the young beasts made by his old friend of the cape, Jesus ("Chucho") Solorzano. Leathery Bullfighter Juan Silveti rolled up, slapped the President on the back, roared: "How's it going, Plaza old boy?" Plaza grinned. "I have a lot of friends...
Wrote Crosby: "The information Mr. Elaine and Mrs. C. dredge out of these kids concerning their fan clubs, their dogs and their other enthusiasms is, I suppose, accurate, relevant and just possibly important to the junior misses and junior misters. To me, it is rather dim, faraway and hopelessly immaterial to anything in my environment...
...Place in the Country. He has won his place with a blend of "the fan approach," and a scholar's serious interest in the fine points of the game. His delivery is warmly enthusiastic without drifting into hysteria; his Southern accent is mild, not wild. Most important, he still adores baseball and never expects to tire of it. "Baseball," he explains, "is a vicarious thrill. I get to play all ten positions...
Said a Texas legislator at Austin: "An awful lot of stuff hit the fan today. Maybe he shouldn't have said it all-about taxes-but I'm glad he did." The crowd of 25,000 sent him on his way to Houston with a burst of vociferous applause...