Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your April 18 article on "The Catholic Issue" was most discouraging. You seem to fan the age-old myths of separation of church and state to the point where the problem is distorted beyond its original intent. If Kennedy is to be barred because he is a Roman Catholic, I suggest we throw out all Roman Catholics from those governmental agencies where Roman influence conflicts with Protestant ideas (i.e., Health, Education and Welfare...
...also one of the better stories racked up by a newsman who has had plenty of good ones. Assigned in 1920 to dig up evidence that the 1919 World Series had been fixed, Reporter Reutlinger asked a Chicago White Sox fan for the name of "the dumbest player on the team." Name in hand, Reutlinger knocked on the door of Outfielder Oscar ("Happy") Felsch with the startling-and false -news: "I just want to tell you they've confessed." Replied the dumbest member of the White Sox: "Well, those wise guys. Sure, I got mine too. Five hundred bucks...
...Imperial Guard Band, the octet brought down the house playing I Can't Do It and You Pretty Baby. Mann himself so delighted the King of Buganda's royal flutist in a joint jam session that he received a flute as a prize. Many a fan asked: "Where did you learn our rhythms...
...explained: "You really internalize your material." Murmurs Hugh: "If it isn't right taste-wise, I change it." His appeal to women is vast. Although a critic has said that "he looks like everybody's son-in-law, very sincere and stunningly good at nothing," a typical fan letter from Utica, N.Y. said: "Hugh Downs is what we older women think of as the ideal American...
...easy-going guy who has been working at the trade of entertaining ever since high school, when his name was Thomas Garrison Morfit and he was writing a musical comedy back in Baltimore, almost 30 years ago. Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage and solicited his collaboration on a revue. "I was flunking high school anyway," says Moore, "so I had nothing to lose. I saw a chance to jump 16 steps in one leap...