Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away the listless backwater hours with beer and cards. In contrast, his entry into the big leagues is a step into national limelight. Within two months of his first professional start, he is the best pitcher in the American League and at the center of an out-pouring of fan mania. Suddenly the baseball is not as enjoyable as it once was. Aqua Velva asks him to do commercials; he is plagued by endless promotionals...
Most Plimpton fans know him through Paper Lion, which while appealing to adults, was also the quintessential gift book from suburban fathers to 13-year-old sons. Plimpton, as the self-effacing yet enterprising fan, symbolized a unique brand of genteel masculinity. As a gift, Paper Lion was a way a father could say "yes" to his son's interest in pro football and its heroes of incredible size and strength, competing at a level unimaginable for ordinary men--and "yes" to his son's desire to be Bart Starr or Mean Joe Greene, tough, hard-bitten, or just awesomely...
Often Garth takes on customers whose causes seem hopeless and turns down apparent front runners. "We only accept people we like," says the old Adlai fan, who still prefers liberal Democrats but occasionally works for "progressive" Republicans. Four years ago, Hugh Carey, then a Brooklyn Congressman, seemed a poor bet-he was virtually unknown. Last year Koch looked like an even worse prospect. But in each case Garth's analysis of polls showed that more prominent rivals had relatively little support. "That's a situation with a vacuum," says Garth. "You can move in with the right candidate...
...sparks, trailers were ripped from their moorings, automobiles floated away like fishermen's bobbers. In the basement of Forrest Hall, a 140-bed dormitory, 22-year-old Senior Bobby Carter had finished his nightly devotion, reading from II Corinthians, and was just falling asleep when his windowsill fan hurtled across the room on the crest of a wave. Carter swam for the stair well and made it to safety. Three friends drowned in adjoining rooms. In all, 38 members of the college community, including 18 children, perished...
...soup cans and Monroe. Seaver's likeness, done in acrylic and silk screen on canvas, is part of Warhol's new series, which also includes Muhammad Ali, Dorothy Hamill, Chris Evert and Jack Nicklaus. Why Warhol's current interest in athletes? He has become a sports fan. Besides, he says, "sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were...