Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooner Eddie Fisher, 25, discovered that he had a distinguished fan. In Manhattan last week, President Eisenhower heard Eddie sing at the Hotel Sheraton Astor, then delayed his own television speech and asked Fisher to do another verse of Irving Berlin's Count Your Blessings for the TV audience...
...fan mail last spring, TV Star Liberace received an unusual letter. "Even back in our old days in Boston ten years ago," it read, "I was sure that you would some day become famous enough for me to kick around in Li'l Abner . . . Since you are now a household word, it is up to all the Yokums and all the Capps to kid the daylights out of you, your piano, your candles, your curly hair and your adoring fans. I plan to do a Sunday page sequence about a pianist named Liverachy. Any resemblance to you will...
Despite such restrictions, the winter leagues manage to comb the majors for all the talent they can get. This month, as the southern season got under way, a traveling ball fan could recognize familiar names. The Yankees' Willie Miranda and the Senators' Con Marrero were playing for Cuba's Almendares. The White Sox's Chico Carrasquel was in Caracas. In Santurce, P.R., fans were being treated to the antics of the Giants' incomparable Willie Mays...
...when signal-stealing first made a team huddle necessary before each play, the littlest college in Harvard's football history contributed the Crimson fan's most awakening gridiron experience. That was the first year a Harvard varsity football team lost its opening game. And what's more, it was defeated by a squad of 24 players from Geneva College in Beaver Falls...
...spite of the scattered upsets, these matches have usually provided the Crimson fan with an opportunity to boast, "I believe Harvard did win last Saturday...