Word: fans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Mrs. Hicks arrived at the City Club podium to concede gaciously to Kevin White a fan yelled out, "This is your best hour, Louise, your best hour." Actually you might say the same about the people of Boston...
JUDY GARLAND AT HOME AT THE PALACE (ABC). Judy should be living at home in a mansion reading her fan mail, occasionally demonstrating her still top-rate abilities as a comedienne on television and encouraging the careers of her talented children. But she played the Palace again last summer, and that stint, while exhibiting her still vibrant showmanship, displayed only a shadow of the Garland voice: her famous catch-in-the-throat turned into mere hoarseness, and even her magnificent sense of pitch and timing occasionally failed her. This album is a shockingly honest record of her opening night last...
...Sports fans, like 19th century novelists and Avis executives, believe in handicap justice. And when No. 2 man ages heroics despite hardship, the cheering section becomes legion. Of the 200 million or so people tuned in to the Se ries around the world last week, the folks in St. Louis and unreconstructed admirers of expert, well-rounded baseball teams were rooting for the Cardinals. Just about everybody else was discovering why the Red Sox-a 200-to-1 shot for the American League pennant and a 2-to-3 underdog in the Series-had cost Boston its Brahmin cool...
...might have seemed to any dial-twirling fan who tried to keep up with the dizzying array of TV sports shows last week. The enthusiasm is understandable, for sport is the most consistently exciting spectacle on TV. The cameras follow the bouncing ball with such telescopic expertise that they have turned the living room into a locker room and Daddy into a sports nut. This season the three networks will telecast 796 hours of sports-more than twice as much as ten years...
...most vocal critics accused the offense of being two years ago. The idea of a "monster back" or "rover," which has caught on with many other League teams, is too much in the nature of a gamble for the Crimson. But while it is hard for the average fan to appreciate, Ivy coaches paid their respects to Harvard's defense by selecting Cantabs to four of the eleven All-Ivy defense spots last season...