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Word: fans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day he landed at the Dallas airport from New York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One of the People | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: New York: Loving Analysis | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

This letter has but one purpose: to protest against any action by Harvard University or alumni giving preference of aid to athletes who apply to Harvard College. I should like to assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...awfully embarrassed about my legs," Betty Grable confided in Hollywood as her studio mailed to a fan the 1,500,000th copy of the famous Grable-in-a-bathing-suit photo. "People all want to know how I manage to keep them the way they are. I don't have a good answer ... I am just in luck that I happen to stem from the proper genealogical tree. I owe it all to Grannie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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