Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to several undergraduate researchers the cigarettes "are too damn mild," and one Ike follower voiced regret than his pack wasn't any longer than that of a Stevenson fan...
...most devoted also get together for a yearly shoot at Fort Ticonderoga. This year 85 true believers made the trip, spent a smoky weekend happily blazing away at National Rifle Association small-bore targets. "They're all crazy," commented a Ticonderoga resident (no muzzle-loader fan), "but they have...
...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...noted, "would have been a happier place if television had never been discovered . . . Television is part of the uneasiness of life ... a mass-produced form of education which is potentially one of the greatest dangers in the world." He admitted, however, that Mrs. Fisher has become a baseball fan by watching ball games on television...
This year, President Smith had a talk with Farmers Co-op President Glen Boger. Boger, no special fan of painting, picked up the idea at once. Says he: "I went into it purely for public relations. When you can get 40,000 people into your front door, that's pretty good for any business." The alliance hopes to do business, too. Their paintings, priced from $12 to $3,000, will be on sale for six months. But, sales or no sales, the alliance is now well out of its old, ivory-tower doldrums and ready to paint anything...