Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victories?and he has more big races to run. When he lost the 1953 Kentucky Derby by a head, thousands turned from their TV screens in sorrow, a few in tears. Hundreds of people, old and young, have sent him letters and greeting cards. Little girls have organized fan clubs in his name...
William Ackerman of Chicago is no Arthur Godfrey fan. In fact, Ackerman, international director of the World Home Bible League, which gives away close to 400,000 Bibles a year, feels that Godfrey is occasionally "suggestive." But when, while he was switching channels one night, Godfrey's humble face swam onto the screen, Bibleman Ackerman stopped to stare. "The Redhead" was pouring the commercial...
...rare motion picture magnate who can resist burdening screens with a sequel to any smash hit. Happily, the public has been spared an acquaintance with the Son of Fan Fan the Tulip. Instead, Rene Clair has taken the materials that made Fan Fan so entertaining--a fanciful script, Gerard Phillipe and Gina Lollabrigia--and gone on to new triumphs...
...only possible criticism of this droll and well conceived show is that Miss Lollabrigia is too little in view. Sharing Philippe's dreams with two other women (this makes the picture a fantasy) she has a smaller part than in Fan Fan or Beat The Devil. Fortunately, the tiny amount of time she is on the screen is matched by the costume she wears. As a luscious houri, Miss Lollabirgia is well outfitted for balmy desert breezes, and is also quite logically clad for a scene in a bath...
These ruminations of Dr. Watson in the Boscombe Valley Mystery would seem elementary to Dr. Thomas Arthur Gonzales, New York City's chief medical examiner for 17 years. Yet U.S. cities have long ignored what every Sherlock Holmes fan knows: that in fighting crime, the most important clues are often furnished by medicine. When Dr. Gonzales went to work in the newly created office of medical examiner in 1918, it was common enough for crimes of violence to go undetected, and not uncommon for sudden deaths to result in criminal charges against innocent people. The teeming, sprawling city...