Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like Ike." At several stops along the Taft route, a plane flew overhead towing a crimson banner which said: "Welcome, Senator, but We Like Ike." The Eisenhower state headquarters insisted this was the work of an individual Ike fan, not an organization maneuver. But by this week the Eisenhower forces were beginning their maneuvers in earnest. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Ike's national campaign manager, was coming home for some speeches. Others on the speaking schedule: Representative Christian Herter, an Eisenhower candidate for delegate; Ike strategist Paul Hoffman; Minnesota's Representative Walter Judd...
...Fan interest began to perk up under Veeck's Barnum & Bailey tactics, not because the Browns were going anywhere in the pennant race (they finished last, 46 games behind the Yankees), but because the fans wanted to see what Veeck would do next. Cardinal Owner Fred Saigh (rhymes with high), whose club has drawn over a million fans every year of the five Saigh has owned it, countered by placing ads in the St. Louis papers extolling the Cardinals as "a dignified St. Louis institution." The struggle for fans...
...course, possible that Willy might have had Schuster shot in retaliation. But a supposition like this proves that either the police didn't know Sutton very well, or that Sutton had changed since the days of his Philadelphia jailbreak. As the youngest comic-book fan of Gangbusters will testify, Willy was never a man for violence, especially killing...
...Bogart, sneering, slugging, and scotching, uses them all like he uses a chaser--as little as possible after a stiff drink. It's strictly a fan picture. But the power of the press comes through. Rienzi gets his. But then, so do Maxie and Sam. The only one who seems to come out on top is Ethel Barrymore, and after all, she is needed for that new movie on Lucky Luciano...
...doubt, the best lines in the current issue were written by no 'Poonster. They are the reaction of people outside the Cambridge community to former Lampoons. These letters run from a Tufts man's snide blast at Harvard in general to the pointed pouts of the Lana Turner fan club, angered by the Lampoon's attitude toward their heroine. "...Don't you wish your crummy students could see our Lana in person...