Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approved did not phone. With the field left to themselves, the complainants gave network program directors a discouraging view of the audience they strive to please. "We just plain don't care to hear or read about the mess," wrote a Texan to NBC. Added a CBS fan: "What good does it do to make so many of us give up the only pleasures we have-our daily TV programs? Besides, it creates unrest and worry to thousands...
...hope Kennedy keeps his men centered in on the Demons and Dragons while the critical eggheads fan the air with their butterfly nets...
...ninth inning the San Francisco Giants trailed Philadelphia 7-5, and faced the awesome task of making up the deficit against the Phillies' Dick Farrell, best relief pitcher in the National League. But not a fan stirred to leave Seals Stadium. Instead, the crowd settled back expectantly for the last of the ninth...
Hightailing it back to barracks at Fort Hood, Texas, after a gay evening in Fort Worth, geetar-thumping Private Elvis Presley and three companions were innocently chugging down Highway 81 in his plain ole red-and-white Lincoln when a fan pulled alongside to see if the civvie-clad driver was really the great man at large. Interpreting the glance as a drag challenge, Elvis kicked down on the throttle with the fan in hot pursuit. Also on the trail was an interested state patrolman, who flagged Elvis and fan at 75 m.p.h. (in a 55-m.p.h. zone), gave them...
...What-Me Worry?" Most fascinating aspect of Mad's success is that its spoofs appeal mainly to teenagers. They bombard Mad's tiny editorial offices just below Manhattan's Greenwich Village with some 400 fan letters a day, wear T shirts emblazoned with the .face of Mad's grinning imp Alfred E. ("What-me worry?") Neuman, and treasure old issues like collector's items. Maddiction also has become a cult in some adult circles. Comics Ernie Kevacs, Bob and Ray, Henry Morgan and Orson Bean contribute frequently and willingly for next to nothing...