Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next two months, TV Fan Lindsey struggled vainly to get his set back. No sooner was the tuner reported cured than the repairman said he needed a new picture tube-$60 more. That took another four weeks. Eventually the set came back-only to break down soon after. "The tuner again?" groaned Lindsey. "Yup," said the repairman, and bundled it off for another month. The final bill, including "delivery": $162.40. Says Lindsey, with the dazed air of a man who had unwittingly picked up a live wire: "They really gimme the works. And the worst...
...their form of government. "As I read it," he said, "the crowd hushed. Towards the end, however, when Fast told of his distress that mail from Soviet admirers was no longer reaching him, there was an outburst of indignation. Two young Muscovites said they had sent Fast a fan letter only recently. Obviously, the Soviet people are still writing to Fast, but their letters are being intercepted...
...tennis fan and player for many years, your Aug. 26 cover story on Althea Gibson prompted me to send her, through TIME, my heartiest and best wishes from faraway East Africa. I admire Miss Gibson not only for her superb tennis, but also for her courage in overcoming the side obstacles she met on her road to victory...
When Burr Tillstrom's gentle Kukla, Fran & Ollie was chopped down from half an hour to 15 minutes six years ago, some 10 million fans proved they could be as loud as they had been loyal. The New York Times complained that "minority" viewers were being disenfranchised. The Washington Times-Herald asked: "Who's responsible for this brainstorm-someone who's mad at the human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after...
...legend of the brooding genius is always simmering near by-just offscreen, on the sound track, between frames. But it never really comes off for the simple reason that it was largely fraudulent, the creation of movie-fan magazines and ambitious young Dean himself. Director George Stevens, who pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business...