Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candy-Coated Chuckle. Many of the boys prop up their fan appeal with wholesale giveaway of wristwatches, electric blankets, home freezers and sports shirts. Standouts in this field are Art Linkletter and his House Party, Welcome Travelers' Tommy Bartlett (noted as the possessor of the "candy-coated chuckle"), and Johnny Dugan of Breakfast in Hollywood, which last week was dropped from TV because of lack of sponsors...
...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...
...frequent excerpts from the operettas. Tastefully staged, expertly sung, and only seldom edited for length, this vignette version of Gilbert and Sullivan is tantalizing. Mixed with inner thanks for the privilege of seeing a trifling number of songs well done, there will rankle in each G & S fan's heart an anger that there is not more...
...ballet staggered on, saved by the fact that Anatoly Lunacharsky, a playwright and novelist who became Commissar of Education, was a ballet fan.* The starveling staff of dancers danced for their Soviet suppers in the same old, Czar-favored style. But when the chance came to take a small troupe on a tour of Germany, Dancer George Balanchine, then 20, leaped...
...government-owned radio network stopped carrying Father Marcos on its Seville station, but the priest's fan mail doubled. In Madrid, outside the cardinal's jurisdiction, Father Marcos carried on with the approval of his superior, the Oblate Provincial, who last week sent a report on the matter to the Vatican...