Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Likes to relax at home with his four children: Joan, 16; Anne, 14; Tom, 12 (named for a maternal grandfather, not for Dewey); Jim, 9. They live in a comfortable old house near Manhattan's Gramercy Park. In religion, a Methodist. For recreation likes dancing, baseball (a Yankee fan), and ranching vacations in Arizona...
...works for a Mexican landowner. But he has a hankering for Texas and can never forget where home is. He makes it home for good, finally, as a Texas Ranger, but not until after enough Indian fighting and other assorted acts of violence to satisfy a Zane Grey fan...
...hunted up someone who I knew had gotten several tickets and stated my case. He was very sympathetic, and holding out a bunch of tickets fan-shape he asked me to "pick any two you wish." I was non-plussed...
Encouraged by the good news, U.S. and British financial circles buzzed with talk that the pound may again be made convertible and freely exchanged for dollars or any other currency. Rab Butler helped fan the talk, told the Houce of Commons that "by degrees" the freeing of the British pound might indeed be a "step in the right direction." By week's end, the talk got another boost: the government announced that convertibility would be one of the chief topics at the opening this week of the Commonwealth Conference...
Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...