Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of Harry Truman's staff have been inclined to sneer at Kefauver as an upstart who let TV spotlights, headlines and fan letters go to his head. Harry Truman himself has been cool toward his potential rival. Recently, however, as the Washington scandals began to hurt, a presidential staff member expressed a new attitude toward Kefauver: "Well, now, maybe Vice President...
...Long Count. In Washington, D.C., after taking a count of ten, Boxer James Walker staggered up from the canvas to challenge a jeering ring fan, who floored him again with one haymaker...
...Manhattan, where he received the Touchdown Club's annual award, Old Fan Douglas MacArthur viewed with alarm the present state of U.S. football. "My only concern," he said, "is that it does not fall within the eager clutches of rapidly expanding federal controls. If I were to give you but one word of warning, it would be to keep football and, for that matter, all other sports, free of governmental bureaucratic regulations . . . The game would no longer be a sport; it would be another of our lost freedoms, a plaything of selfish politics, a helpless adjunct to a creeping...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not happy over the meet. He was, however, inclined to dismiss most of the trouble as more first meet jitters. Nevertheless, it wasn't easy to dismiss lightly several glaring weaknesses that made even the most avid Crimson track fan hold a rein on his enthusiasm...
...runs off to the country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...