Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Started as a hopeful attempt by area track coaches interested in increasing fan interest in the sport, the meet made a rather inauspicious beginning last spring. The meet not only was run rather poorly, but it was almost a complete secret to the public. As a result, what could have been a glorious track opener was a drab afternoon...
...futuristic-looking machine uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...
...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...
...handsome profit from recorded advertisements that are played over the phone before each answer. Such varied clients as the Hollywood State Bank, the Los Angeles Examiner and a Las Vegas gambling casino advertise through S.I.R. But the biggest buyers of all are liquor companies. More often than not, the fan who calls the service will hear: "Here is your answer, courtesy...
...Georgia Tech 222-0.)* What was the largest crowd ever to watch a water polo game? (In 1932 10,000 at the Los Angeles Olympic games.) S.I.R. will answer any reasonable query, but once refused to give Pro Wrestler Lord Carlton's address to an irate female fan who wanted to take him apart after watching...