Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, she went dancing until 3 a.m. She became a fight fan, and yelled with the crowd (particularly for Rocky Graziano) in smoky Madison Square Garden. Her career slipped from bad to worse. RCA Victor said nothing about renewing her recording contract; the radio demand for her voice began to fade. The wise guys of the music business shook their heads. Patrice, was just one more prodigy who couldn't grow...
...soubrette, Patrice's work is pretty well cut out for her. This season, in addition to eight Adeles in Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
...Washington, a few with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
...paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel, to the winner of a five-lap sprint...
Kazmaier brothers have followed and fostered Dick's athletic career with expert eyes, though neither they nor Dick's high-school coach ever dreamed they had an All-America performer in their backyard. Dick's father, his foremost fan, who constantly admonishes his son not "to get a swelled head," hops into the family's 1951 Chevrolet almost every weekend and drives the 600-odd miles from Maumee to watch his son play...