Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plenty of Fitzgerald fans are passionately certain that no other girl singer has come even close to Ella since that night. In the basement world of jazz, where fashions can change as fast as a teenager's voice, Ella has filled the smoke-blurred spotlight for well over a "decade. She has filled it almost as long upstairs in the air-conditioned, palm-frond land of popular dance music. In 1938 she became a national hit when her record of her own song A-Tisket A-Tasket began the fad for swinging nursery rhymes. In 1946 she recorded...
...drug manufacturers leaned heavily on FDA's clearance, on clinical studies recently completed or still in progress, and on fan letters from cold sufferers who thought that the pills had worked fine. Anahist announced that it was increasing its advertising schedules...
...Ebbet's Field, planned to use it in irrigating the infield grass. Ernie's Enterprises, a St. Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know the secret) and Magic Light Bulbs (mysteriously lights while held in your hand...
...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
...have much chance to go to the theater these days. "I am sorry to confess," said he, "that this winter I got a television set." When he gets time, between work and watching TV, he loves to see a good baseball game. He is a Dodger fan...