Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...87th birthday, Publisher William Randolph Hearst got a heart-warming fan note: "As you round another year in the dedication of your firm voice, indomitable will and great moral courage to the building of an invincible America in an uneasy world, I send my warm admiration and gratitude for your unfailing faith and support which has been a source of constant strength . . . [signed: General Douglas] MacArthur...
...night last week a disgruntled movie fan received a soothing visit from the U.S. cinema's highest brass. Shepherded by Eric Johnston, their official spokesman, such bigwigs as Loew's Nicholas M. Schenck, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and Paramount's Barney Balaban gathered in Washington for the occasion. The fan: Colorado's Democratic Senator Ed C. Johnson, author of a bill to clean up Hollywood morals through federal licensing of movie players and producers (TIME, March...
Pleased as punch with his gift copy of The Life and Times of the Shmoo and an assortment of shmoo toys, Emperor Hirohito's brother, Prince Chichibu, sat right down and wrote Cartoonist Al Capp a little thank-you note: "I, as a shmoo fan, was awfully delighted at seeing various activities of shmoo and its actual figure. The kigmy, I think, is too marvelous and the most useful creature in our human society . . . Long Live Li'l Abner...
...loneliest man in Hollywood last week was a onetime Manhattan juvenile court judge named Stephen S. Jackson. Staid, mild-mannered Judge Jackson, 51, was on "a very important mission" for Colorado's burly Senator Ed C. Johnson, a shocked and disillusioned Ingrid Bergman fan who was determined to improve Hollywood's morals by federal licensing of its players and producers (TIME, March 27). But Investigator Jackson had hardly settled into his small, bathless hotel room before a morally indignant Hollywood began peppering him with abuse...
...traveler from Italy asked Fitzgerald last summer where "the retired silent film actors Pols Nrgri Larena lives." He explained in broken English that he would like to deliver a poem be had written for her. Flizgerald discouraged the fan with the news that it was a 3000-mile walk to where his movie ideal lived...