Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, where the white-hot White Sox at week's end had won 29 of their last 35 games, Mrs. Mildred Krahn, 34, a baseball fan, withdrew a suit against her husband for separate maintenance. He had called baseball "foolish," she said, objected to her going to a game, and even took a belt to her. But recently he began to watch the White Sox on TV. "He came to me and told me he was wrong about baseball," said Mrs. Krahn. "He's out right now, trying to buy tickets...
...working on a plan allowing some sponsored TV shows to compete with BBC's state monopoly, the British press reported indignantly that, on coronation day, Today had shown alternating views of their Queen and Garroway's ape. The incident did more than any other argument to fan fears of U.S.-style "television vulgarity...
...jazz fan put it: "There'll be better trumpet players. But they won't learn jazz as Oscar did, marching in parades and funerals. And they won't play jazz the way he plays...
...boys believe they may be getting into the "fanatic fan" class. Says Jethro: "After we appeared on a hillbilly show at Symphony Hall in Boston-that's the best hillbilly town ever-the young gals outside like to tore us apart...
...vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness with which they represent and satisfy public opinion...