Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College of Cardinals this week are an elaborate series of ceremonies taking place over a four-day period. First comes a secret consistory at which the Pope recites to the old cardinals the names of those he proposes to elevate. The cardinals nod their assent. Immediately, messengers fan out to deliver the biglietto-the letter informing each cardinal-elect of his elevation (tradition demands that he feign surprise on receiving the letter). Two days later the new cardinals join the Pope at an "intimate" consistory, during which he hands each one the scarlet biretta. Then comes a public consistory...
...TIME'S biggest beats is Latin-America, a reach of 6,000 miles from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Reporters fan out from four TIME bureaus; experienced part-time correspondents cover every major city. Copies of the Latin American edition are flown to most of the area the same day that TIME goes on sale...
...father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about Germany with a retinue that includes a tutor and a private secretary...
...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...
...performed by Bernstein and his beefed-up 112-man orchestra. Constant's starkly atonal 24 Preludes lasted a scant 13 minutes. They were played without pauses, ranged in mood from misty delicacy to raucous riots of sound. One prelude, which Boxing Fan Constant called "The Punch." had a hard. loud, opaque sound, lasted for all of six seconds. In another, the musicians found themselves playing 56 parts simultaneously. At concert's end the audience shrieked and bravoed. the critics registered approval, and Conductor Bernstein acknowledged that he found the whole business "interesting'' and "searching...