Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to the American Bar Association in Chicago, Joseph N. Welch, former special counsel for the Army in its squabble with Senator Joseph McCarthy, reflected on his depressing sojourn in Washington. "The two simple emotions I observed at the capital were fear and hate, fanned to a white heat," said he. "It was frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp...
...thick in London. BBC Announcer Donald Gray, a ruggedly handsome six-footer who lost an arm on the Normandy beachhead, has a deep, quiet voice that thrills British housewives (said one: "It makes me all relaxed to listen to him-I think he's smashing!"). Among his burbling fan letters, Announcer Gray got an ominous note from an anonymous husband who claimed Gray had "mesmerized" his wife. The husband threatened to kill Gray unless he retired from TV. Last week another threatening letter arrived, this time setting the day for the execution: Aug. 25. Wrote the threatener: "I stake...
...century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner...
...joined the R.A.F. as "Aircraftsman Shaw," was posted to stations in India. Thousands of pounds poured in from his bestselling Revolt in the Desert, but Ned sent most of the profits straight to charity. Ned's chief financial problem was how to answer his fan mail when he could only "afford two rupees [about 70?] for stamps every week." He noted, with a touch of malicious pleasure, that his modesty made him a thorn in the flesh of his superiors. "The officers steer clear of me, because I make them uncomfortable...
Married. Sally Rand, 52, tireless fan-dancer; and Fred Lalla, 35, former Los Angeles plaster contractor; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. One hour after the ceremony, she discarded her wedding dress and stood coyly nude on the stage of Las Vegas' Silver Slipper Saloon...