Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fan Mail...
...Jacobs was a student of drama. At California's Stanford University, he majored in journalism, was also a football fan, a moviegoer, and had ambitions toward the theater. In October 1965, he enlisted in the Army; before he went to Viet Nam last September, he sent a form letter to 100 of his friends, telling where he was headed. After his twin brother, mother and father got home from a European vacation, Jacobs began a gargantuan literary task: he wrote some 300 letters to his family, more to his Stateside friends, telling what the war was like and what...
...Neck survive the jug test? Those were the weighty, provocative questions confronting every red-blooded American last week. It was that time again, and Poet Don Marquis was probably right when he rhapsodized: "Oh, what the hell, it's spring." Marquis, of course, was not a baseball fan...
...wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think he's keen. Says one fan: "His French songs give me the feeling of not being in Chicago, which many of us find very gratifying...
...Neuroses. The two most generous compliments she ever received came anonymously. In 1961, a nameless but extravagant fan contributed enough money to enable her to buy a 1673 Stradivarius now valued at $12,000. Two years ago, another anonymous admirer shelled out $90,000 for Jacqueline's other Strad-the famous "Davidov," once owned by the 19th century Russian cellist Carl Davidov. "The first has an earthy, peasant sound," Jacqueline says. "The Davidov is fine and clear. The extraordinary thing is that the wood still lives after 300 years...