Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declaration of Independence: Your decision to stay home with the TV set, the tall, tinkling glass and your faithful electric fan...
...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
...defeated in the next election," said Race Horse Fan Winston Churchill, "I think I shall concentrate on racing. That Ago Khan has had it all his own way far too long...
Shape of the Future. Phonevision would not only serve the convenience of the home-loving movie fan-who could save money by letting his family and friends in on the show for $1-but it is the only scheme yet devised to make it profitable for Hollywood to turn out quality feature-length films for TV. Potentially, it would yield far bigger profits than the country's 20,000 theaters...
...Senator's bidding, his morals investigator, Judge Stephen S. Jackson, ended a trying fortnight in Hollywood, lost no time in getting back among friends. But, like any longtime movie fan, Big Ed could appreciate the thrilling suspense of a cliffhanger. At week's end, he let it be known that he had faith in the sincerity of the cinemoguls' intentions, but he was "so darned proud" of a couple of new movie-morality bills he was drafting that he might introduce them soon, anyway...