Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman (48-ft. ocean racing yawl) and a sports-car fan...
...Arthur Laurents; music by Jule Styne; direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins) opened to breathless rave reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The critical fan-farenade for what is, at best, a so-so show would be a puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever seen on stage...
...wives who once turned querulous at their husbands' seasonal desertion plead for bigger, headier boats. Boat clubs blossom in landlocked regions. In Arizona, where the boating public numbered only about 3,000 five years ago, there are now more than 30,000-and many of them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas ten years ago; today caravans of autos tow runabouts and outboard cruisers 361 miles from Wichita to Oklahoma's Lake Texoma. The seven-state Tennessee Valley region accommodated fewer than...
Cold Seat. A portable car seat that keeps the motorist cool by forcing a draft of air under and behind him will be put on sale by Comfort Conditioning, Inc. of Norfolk. Built like a conventional summer car-seat pad, the cooler has a four-blade fan in a steel housing, draws its power from the dashboard cigarette-lighter outlet. Price...
Flawed and fragile early novels are often like youthful snapshots: a source of faint discomfort to the author, a delight to the doting fan, and a revealing glimpse into the past. Two such novels have now been issued in the U.S., one by Nancy Mitford, the British author (Love in a Cold Climate) who hates Americans, and the other by Christopher Isherwood, the British author (Prater Violet) who became one. The first is worth noting because of the surprisingly naive notions of its adult author, the second because it marks the jumping-off point in a talented young writer...