Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program called The Goon Show, which was the making of Actor Peter Sellers, among others. When the Goons got together again to do a special program for the BBC's 50th birthday, Sellers brought four "friends": Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon and Princess Anne. Another royal Goon fan, serving with the navy in the Mediterranean, sent his regrets: "Last night my hair fell out, my knees dropped off, and I turned green with envy at the thought of my father and sister being there. Charles...
...Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls and pastries, Quirk told TIME Correspondent John Stacks...
...Every councillor has an inalienable right to grandstand, but I think restraint should be shown here," Councillor Robert Moncreiff said. "I'm no fan of Nixon, but the damage caused to Cambridge in the disturbance cannot really be traced directly...
...next 500 meters were, to say the least, unique as crew races go. As several hundred avid crew buffs lined the banks of the Charles at the finish line, one fan with the aid of binoculars broadcast this fateful portion of the row to the many interested, who at this point could not see the action...
...HAVE ALWAYS been suspicious about sports books. Most of them serve only to glorify sport and perpetuate the looking-glass world myth that surrounds it. Written for the fanatic fan who will devour anything concerning his favorite superstar, the books only attempt to provide an "inside glimpse" into the life of the athlete as told to a ghostwriter. But the private life of a Bobby Orr or Willis Reed is of little instrinsic interest...