Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson middleguards Mike Georges and Alex MacLean will be doing this afternoon what every Harvard fan would love to be doing himself--putting the pressure on Yale quarterback Brian Dowling...
Measured by the emotion it inspires among fans, no other U.S. sport quite compares with pro football. And no team compares with the National Football League's New York Giants. As Eliot Asinof puts it in a new book on the Giants, Seven Days to Sunday (Simon & Schuster, $5.95): "If you are a Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor...
...FAN'S NOTES, by Frederick Exley. A young man, unable to participate in the American myth, uses pro-football heroes to act out his own ineluctable dreams...
...Look, my wife is pregnant and we're adding a new wing to the house," explained Music Fan Robert Orchard, president of a large printing company, after he and a friend won the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for one performance with a bid of $3,100. "I'm going to wrap it all up-have a birthday party for the baby, an open house for the new wing, and I'm going to conduct Happy Birthday." Mrs. Robert Wolfson paid $2,000 for a walk-on part in the TV series, Mission Imposible; St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL. Edited by Sonia Orwell and fan Angus. Four volumes (2,041 pages), Harcourt, Brace & World...