Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon. Gregarious (dance and music fan), 47-year-old Robert D. Holmes, the state's first Democratic governor in 18 years, harnessed himself happily to a newly Democratic assembly, but was still waiting after 109 ballots for the deadlocked (15-15) senate to organize itself. Holmes let it be known immediately that he will be pulling strong on higher teacher pay, state government reorganization. One of his first acts was to toss the fake log out of the fireplace in his executive suite, replacing it with something more suitable for a timber-producing state: real logs...
...screen, Huang was equally sober and serious in his private life. As a rising star in Shanghai, he spent his evenings studying medicine instead of going to nightclubs, and throughout his career preferred a good book to an evening on the town. He had not married. "Who," the Chinese fan magazines asked over and over again, "would be the lucky girl...
...package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays 25? into $10,000. That calls for a celebration. Surrounded by a tableful of beauties, the unspoiled boy raises a glass of champagne...
...neurosis has been discovered: audiophilia, or the excessive passion for hi-fi sound and equipment. The discoverer: Dr. Henry Angus Bowes, clinical director in psychiatry at Ste. Anne's Hospital for veterans at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., himself an audio fan. Tweet by tweet and woof by woof, at a research meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrist Bowes spelled out how audiophiliacs behave...
...founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California...