Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Habits: Prodigious cigar smoker (Churchill sends him his Havana specials by the hundreds) and wine connoisseur. Follows tennis and cricket "not as a fan but as a fanatic," and has been known to adjourn state conferences in London to attend Davis Cup and cricket Test matches...
...actor of genuine promise, Dean made only three movies (East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), and only the first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls...
...ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. For Hurd, a classical-music fan, the Ellington assignment was his first brush with the world of jazz. He caught up with the Duke in San Francisco and spent the first two days trying to corner the elusive but affable musician. "Hi, Hurd. You're the portrait man. Well, fine. Excuse me, I have...
...spitting demonstration is not all you get at Fenway Park these days. Almost unnoticed in Tuesday's game was the effort that another Sox outfielder, Jackie Jensen, made early in the evening to "have it out" with one of the hecklers in stands. The fan persisted in calling Jensen "Mr. Double Play," and Jensen "called him down to talk to him." Nothing too exciting happened, however...
...love Chopin the better for his delicacy and beauty, and I've found your technique re-created these spirits of him amazingly ... I can't but write this comfortable excitement caused by your impressive recital." Thus a Japanese music fan paid his tribute to one of the most widely traveled of U.S. performers: 30-year-old Pianist Eugene Istomin (rhymes with hissed omen). In one way or another, critics at home and abroad have been saying much the same thing about Pianist Istomin for the last decade. Already approaching full maturity at a time when many a young...