Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type slips his revolver and forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...
...last year grossed $42 million, netted $3,300,000. Babies are so important to President Gerber that he prints his annual report in pink & blue, with his own picture framed in a blue ribbon bow (see cut). Gerber follows the U.S. birthrate figures as eagerly as a Brooklyn fan scanning Dodger batting averages...
...picture was shot in England (so that Producer Disney could use some of his own impounded treasure), but the story still takes place in the never-never land of young boys' heads. It is played so broadly by British actors in stock-company style that even the youngest fan can follow the adventures of the cast's only U.S. actor, Bobby (The Window) Driscoll, as Cabin Boy Jim Hawkins...
That morning, burly Barney Doyle went to early Mass, hurried through breakfast and left the house at 8:30-to get a good seat for the doubleheader between the Giants and the Dodgers. Doyle, 53, a ship's carpenter, was a faithful Giant fan; whenever he could, he went to watch his favorites. He took along a friend's son, freckled Otto Flaig...
This time, his defection caused rioting between the Unicorns and Giraffes. But by race time, with 40,000 onlookers crammed around the fan-shaped course in the town square, order had been pretty much restored. The horses were led into neighboring chapels for special blessings, and the jockeys put on their iron helmets and lined up for the start. Jockey Pietrino, as it turned out, needed all the protection he could carry...