Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis concertgoers knew that H.R.B. stood for Harry R. Burke, 65, a Globe-Democrat veteran who reviews not only music, but art and books as well. Harry Burke had worked hard in his early days to fan cultural interest in St. Louis, but of late, rival critics had suspected that some of his vague-sounding concert reviews might have been prewritten. He had been caught with the Choral Society review when someone put it into the early edition by mistake...
...checker's question-and the stack of fan letters that came later -brought TIME Correspondent Frank McNaughton some surprising news. To millions of televiewers in 26 U.S. cities he had become something of a star. To TIME editors he was a man doing before cameras just what he had been doing with a typewriter for 24 years: a bang-up reporting...
Naturally the Pretender is looking for friends who will help him sweep doddering old George II off his throne. So far, so good, but there is disappointment ahead for the fan of historical who expects that all this will quickly lead to an old-fashioned uphill & down dale, with the agents of the Hanoverians in hot pursuit. Bonnie Prince Charlie settles down for a lot of long, long talk in the library...
Invited to "entertain" at a Harvard freshman smoker, Fan Dancer Sally Rand decided to give her performance a new twist. She turned up in ermine wrap and strapless evening gown, smiled at the wolfish whistles as she took off her fur announced: "That's as far as I go tonight." After a song & dance, she launched into a ten-minute lecture on the evils of Communism. The disappointed freshmen lobbed about a quarter's worth of pennies at the stage, and one grumbled later, "The whole idea was to have a good time, not listen to politics...
...that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...