Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dedicating a new campus at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C. last fall, President Truman got a fan letter from a Wake Forest alumnus. "Men like you," ran the President's pleased and prompt reply, ". . . make it possible to carry on in this...
...been scheduled for months to make her debut as the doomed Desdemona in the matinee of Verdi's Otello. When she told General Manager Rudolf Bing that she also would sing her new hit role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte the same night, Bing's eyebrows went up. "You must be crazy," he said...
Horseplay. After Warren's report, Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan piously cried "politics." The uproar was as noisy and as flimsy, he said, as "crackers thrown into a fan...
...engineer, Briggs at 27 was a junior magnate in Detroit's mushrooming car production. In 1907, after having trouble getting tickets to see the Tigers in their first World Series, he resolved that some day he would give Detroit a ball park with enough seats for all its fans, 30 years later spent $1,000,000 to enlarge Briggs Stadium to 58,000 capacity. Said he: "I am just a fan...
...Europe, lodging, lifts, transportation and equipment are much cheaper. At Switzerland's Davos, ski lifts fan out into ten square miles of wide-open slopes. The Parsenn-Bahn offers a choice of skiing down to Jenaz, 18 miles away, or to the nearer villages of Saas, Serneus, Klosters or Wolfgang, each serviced by a whistle-stop railroad that hauls the skier right back to Davos. At Zermatt, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, a good skier can zip down to Italy for a spaghetti lunch and be back in Switzerland for dinner...