Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes popped as I first glanced at the April 28 TIME and spotted Eddie Stanky in a St. Louis Cardinal cap on the cover! As a former St. Louisan and an avid Cardinal fan, I appreciated your fine article on "The Brat" Stanky. Let's hope he'll be the spark that will ignite the gas in the Gashouse...
...display was the work of Collector Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, an old M.I.T. man ('95) and board chairman of Rhode Island's Narragansett Brewing Company. A longtime Americana fan, Brewer Haffenreffer started collecting wooden Indians in the '303 as a promotion stunt for his company. Then it became a passionate hobby...
Most of the reaction was favorable, however, and Withington still has a "trunkful" of fan letters and newspaper clippings. Job offers poured in, and he was subsequently elected to his class Smoker Comittee...
...westerns and one episode of a serial (currently: Flash Gordon). Because "you can't call people up on a survey at 4 in the morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate of 350 a week. Sample: "Even if a guy has dinner at 1 a.m., he likes to relax afterward just like the fellow who eats...
...wears a topaz in her navel. "I've been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful-but it's not interesting, is it?" Hereafter, she would like to be known as a glamour girl-a sexy type who gets fan mail "that says let me have your bra strap for my memory book...