Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central Asia, Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan diener, as the Wazir's errant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called...
...deliberately made your Notre Dame football hero cover picture your corniest in years, filled the story with a collection to end all collections of the humdrum idiocies of professional sports, spicing it with the phony baloney, barstool oratory, synthetic manliness, and parroting of "statistics" and "history" by the sports fan...
...week's end KDYL had a fine collection of encouraging fan mail from doctors as far away as Price, 125 miles to the south, and Preston, Idaho, 112 miles to the north. A few uninvited laymen added their approval. Future programs in the weekly series may include more blood and guts...
...genius, financed an experimental direct-lift machine. Sikorsky was obligingly frugal; all his years of helicopter research cost United less than $300,000. His Vought-Sikorsky 300 was simply a framework of welded pipes with a 75-h.p. aircraft engine and a big flywheel that was linked by automobile fan belting to the transmission of a single, three-bladed rotor. Nevertheless, it incorporated most of the principles of today's Sikorsky machines...
...more rotors which revolved in opposite directions. But Sikorsky put his faith in one rotor. "One woman in the kitchen is fine," he says. "Two women in the kitchen get in each other's way.'' He decided to keep his fuselage from spinning simply by hanging a vertical fan on an outrigger at the tail...