Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mahalia still sings in churches. But her deep, creamy contralto has also been heard five times in Carnegie Hall, where she fills the house without benefit of advertising ("You just get a feeling she's coming," explains one New York fan). Two years ago, on a European tour, greetings came from Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill before an Albert Hall concert...
...Hampshire a 100% Ike supporter, a Taft conservative and a fervid McCarthy fan-in that order-ran one, two, three in the Republican race for the two-year remainder of the late Charles Tobey's Senate term. The winner: veteran Congressman Norris Cotton, 54, who at 24 presided over a G.O.P. state convention. An old friend of Presidential Adviser Sherman Adams, Cotton came out for Ike back in 1951, is rated a sure winner in November...
...program. The program, he said, had been contained in 64 proposed bills. Said Ike: "Now 54 of them were enacted into law. We didn't always make home runs but we did have 54 hits . . . Now that, after all, is a batting average of .830. And any baseball fan will tell you, that's pretty good going in any league." He recalled some of the hits: St. Lawrence Seaway, tax reform bill, the new farm bill. Later, the President said that he was disappointed with the speech; he had tried to do too much in 30 minutes...
...wife, Marilyn Monroe, in action. She was rehearsing that old Irving Berlin scorcher, Heat Wave, for a movie called No Business Like Show Business. During the usual interminable delay, DiMaggio turned to Movie Gossipist Sidney Skolsky, one of the chiders, and muttered: "I keep reading in the papers and fan magazines that I must be an odd ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife on the set. Now that I'm here, everyone looks at me and asks, 'How come?' " At last, the cameras rolled briefly while Marilyn unwound her hips and silently mouthed...
...fan's surprise, nothing was wrong at all. He was watching a Canadian game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Ottawa Rough Riders, televised from Toronto by NBC, which will carry such football all season...