Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible?" wailed a disbelieving fan at the news last week. Paul Newman was 50 years old. Looking hardly a day over 40, he breezed through celebrations that included a family lunch in Connecticut at which he was presented with a wicker wheelchair packed with presents. Then Wife Joanne Woodward, 44, gave a party for him in Manhattan. Neil Sedaka sang The Most Beautiful Man in the World and Them There Eyes. Paul camped it up too, declaring...
What graying fan of radio's Queen for a Day could have imagined that the concept of short-order celebrity would have gone so far? TV now spits out stars faster than a kid's Fourth of July sparkler. "Everybody wants to get into the act," as Jimmy Durante used to say. But as George Santayana used to say, occasionally there is "a lyric cry in the midst of business...
...From a fan's viewpoint, it was the most tedious game of the season, but it was enough to keep intact Harvard's perfect ECAC (11-0) and Ivy League (6-0) records, as the Crimson skated to an easy 4-2 victory over a docile Dartmouth squad last night at Watson...
Horowitz had rewired his car so that the seat-belt warning sounds when the oil pressure is low. "That's much more important to know," he says, "and besides, I figure we'll wear seat belts anyway." He hooked up another switch to a fan, so he can cool his engine in heavy traffic, but otherwise he hasn't meddled with the European engineering, which seems clever...
...since Yo Yo Ma's last concert. Horowitz tapes many of the cellist's concerts, using equipment he designed and built himself, as he has become good friends with Ma. In college Horowitz played a little cello himself--he was better at building metronomes--and was an early fan of Ma's. When he was looking for music for his wedding, he called up Ma, even though they had never met. Charmed by the directness of the request, Ma agreed to play. Horowitz has taped several of his concerts since, and the physicist and the music major often talk...