Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit, though, Roberts has never stopped trying to get a little ink for himself, pleading time and time again over the years to put his name in the paper as the team's number one fan, or to quote him as manager. He became very familiar with the response, "Fat chance...
...more staid guise as a teacher (first at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, now at New York University). Following a sort of platoon system, the performers came and went at the keyboards often grand pianos, which were arranged in a Busby Berkeley-style fan between two potted palms...
Richard Petty, known as "the King" for his early dominance of the sport, has never lost the common touch, tirelessly signing autographs and posing for snapshots that will become treasured souvenirs in the scrapbooks of his loyal subjects. Cale Yarborough occasionally calls on his friend and longtime fan, who has moved from Plains, Ga., to the White House. Donnie and Bobby Allison, brothers from Hueytown, Ala., exemplify the fierce and tender loyalties of Southern families. A more amiable group of millionaires would be hard to find?away from their work...
...sport has another undeniable and special appeal. A football fan knows he will never learn what it would be like to quarterback the Pittsburgh Steelers, but a stock car fan gets behind a wheel every day, and his sedan at least looks like those driven by Yarborough, Petty and the Allisons. As a result, the fans have a rare, fierce sense of identification with the heroes of the sport. At Darlington, when Waltrip edged out Petty, the spectators cheered so loudly that the drivers could hear them over the roar of the engines. For the final laps the fans were...
...coming week offers a smorgasbord of activities of interest to the Boston jazz fan; for once it is not only possible but necessary to exercise some selectivity. Boston Jazz Week (April 27-May 6) begins tomorrow, and its sponsor, the Jazz Coalition, has coordinated a rich and varied program of events to help fulfill this year's theme of "Celebrating the Duke" (they don't mean John Wayne). Boston Jazz Week lacks the financial and promotional resources of the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, but it also lacks the crass commercialism that characterized that event; the committment is to real jazz...