Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vecchio's in San Francisco. His third wife (he has been divorced by all three) had a certain standing in San Francisco society. He was admitted to Seattle's semi-stylish Washington Athletic Club. Most of all, Frank Brewster followed the horses, as owner and fan. A fast trader, he has paid as much as $25,000 for a horse: Brief Moment, winner of the $10,000 Longacres Mile at Seattle in 1939. He was appointed to the Washington State Horse Racing Commission by Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin in 1939, and was named chairman by Democratic Governor...
...excuse for this explosion of song and dance is a book called The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Douglas Wallop; it involves an ardent fan of the Great American Game who sold his soul to the devil for a chance to win the pennant for his team. The plot may get forgotten at times, but Damn Yankees offers something for everybody, a pleasant mixture of sex and good old homey sentiment, with the accent of course on the former...
There is Cousin Honora, a whimsical skinflint who counts out the pennies to Leander's family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses...
...honor. On the three-to four-hour, 363-question test given to would-be Twenty One contestants, Vivienne scored third highest in the show's history-just ahead of John Kieran Jr. and just behind Van Doren (her husband was seventh). A sometime painter, pianist and Double-Crostics fan, she has a bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Queens College. New York, an M.A. and LL.B. from Columbia, has served as a legal assistant to Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court. With Husband Victor, Vivienne lives in a 3½-room Greenwich Village apartment...
Many TV colleagues envy Muggs his income, his fan mail (1,000 letters a week) his fan clubs, his wardrobes (450 outfits, including a set of tails and a gorilla suit), his white Corvette, his travels around the world with accommodations in the best hotels. But he has earned them all: he understands 500 words, can count his fingers, play the piano, spank himself, do cartwheels, raise his arms when he wants to be taken to the bathroom, and perform numerous other monkeyshines, including raising TV ratings. He is also the only TV personality on earth who has been denounced...