Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Mrs. Hanratty isn't a sports fan: she named Terry after her favorite baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals Outfielder Terry Moore, and she played on the tennis team at Slippery Rock State Teachers College. Terry came on early and strong. He won two letters at Butler High in basketball. He pitched a no-hitter the first time he took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down...
Being a member of the rock 'n' roll faithful -- assuming it can be compared to anything else -- is like being a professional sports fan. You go to rock 'n' roll concerts like a fan goes to game after game. Sometimes, when your group looks as good on stage as they sound on records, you win. And sometimes, when the people who go with the sound you paid to hear turn into one big disillusionment, you lose -- and feel like a sucker for caring at all, knowing like the sports fan that they're out there for money...
...worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia; in Rock Island...
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici...
...Though I am no great Johnson fan, your article left me aghast-not at the President but at a supposedly advanced society which judges almost solely on the basis of "likability" and "personality gaps." I am concerned that the American public watches too many soap operas. If the nation's highest official is weighed on the scales of "image" rather than reason, isn't it about time that we stopped feeling and started thinking...