Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chess ranks somewhere between mumblety-peg and logrolling in fan interest. Or at least it did until Fischer, the celebrated recluse, became a media happening. The scenes blur: Bobby swinging away in a sports-celebrity tennis tournament, Bobby receiving a letter of support from President Nixon, Bobby jetting to Bermuda for lunch with David Frost and the beautiful people, Bobby making the rounds of the talk shows (Dick Cavett: Do you honestly think that you are probably the world's greatest player? Bobby: Yeah, right.) There is even a new record called The Ballad of Bobby Fischer, a twangy ditty...
That tireless sports fan, Richard Milhous Nixon, has been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...
Goodman first saw Bench play in Shea Stadium against the Mets. Though a New York fan (Goodman wrote the 1969 cover story on the Mets while they were in second place, and is convinced that it boosted them to the world championship that fall),he was deeply impressed by the Reds' catcher. "This season," says Goodman, "has what is probably the best lineup of catchers since the 1950s. And Bench is the best of the best. Barring injuries or flukes, he will certainly have the price of admission to the Hall of Fame...
...Fan. Norman Mailer, who represented Harper's last time, will write for LIFE this year. He will have a chance to compete with one of his more prominent nonfans, Feminist Germaine Greer, who will carry the Harper's colors at the Democratic Convention. For the Republican, Harper's is switching to Novelist-Playwright Kurt Vonnegut. The monthly's rival Atlantic is avoiding the name game. Says Managing Editor Michael Janeway. "We don't think it's the year for that. Some good, hard digging will be needed to cover this convention...
...tried to explain why, told me how he had been a Stones fan for nine years, how after graduating from college, a year ago he had been unable to settle down; how two months ago he had moved to California to look for a job. With all his other roots severed, Miller clung to his membership in the fraternity of rock 'n' roll, which seemed to give his life a focus. Naturally, records were not enough. He had to see the Stones...