Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the nation, TV stations and newspaper offices heard an angry buzz from viewers. "That fight set boxing back 400 years," protested a fan in Pittsburgh. In San Francisco a man shut off his TV set because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State...
Pinch-Hit Double. Joe may occasionally mispronounce the players' names (he calls Yogi Berra "Berry"), but he has an encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what...
Comic Brown, as resolute a baseball fan as ever fumbled a grounder, used to fly to Florida each spring to work out with the Yankees, and has been in & out of the locker rooms of half the teams across the nation. He has made three baseball movies (Fireman Save My Child, Elmer the Great, Alibi Ike), and his contract with
...current rage of morning TV audiences. J. Fred, a cheerful little chimpanzee in rubber pants, is Dave Garroway's romping sidekick on NBC's 7 a.m. news show Today. Garroway uses J. Fred during lulls on the two-hour program, and since Muggs showed up fan mail and the show's rating have been boosted considerably. Explains Garroway: "Muggs's charm is his unpredictability-same as any animal...
...plot makes little difference to any Chevalier fan. In caricaturing a spring chicken still trying to scratch in mid-autumn he rises above farce to approach great comedy. His lessons to Jacques in picking up beautiful women are as delightful as they are instructive. And one of the funniest scenes shows Jacques stumbling through an imitation of the master's technique with Madeleine as the target...