Word: fervid
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...nine years, buxom, baby-voiced Mary Margaret McBride has been a gossipy midday fixture on Manhattan's station WNBC, once crowded Yankee Stadium with 45,000 of her fervid admirers. Last week, because WNBC inadvertently sold someone else 15 minutes of her show, Mary Margaret huffily announced that she would move her 17 sponsors and $500,000 in billings over to rival station...
...flying trip to the Chinese Nationalist capital on Formosa (TIME, Aug. 7) until he made it. And while they were belatedly and reluctantly beginning to warm up-by degrees-to the Nationalists, they looked in their newspapers and read of diplomatic gallantries between MacArthur and Mme. Chiang and fervid comrades-in-arms exchanges between MacArthur and the Generalissimo...
...first time in U.S. dance history, just about all of the big brains and muscles in modern dance-José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm-were flexing together in one theater to do it. And all their fervid followers seemed to be on hand to give them palm-pounding support...
...beat and blare of the fervid little quintet seemed familiar and so did most of the names: Ingle, Estes, Williams, Bodtkin. But behind the trumpet, instead of the famous "Red" Ingle, Hollywood jazz fans saw a curly-haired youngster of 18-Ingle's son Don. At the traps, in place of "Ace" Estes, was Estes' skinny, long-nosed boy Gene, 18. They counted off the same way right around the stand. Last week, devoutly following in their fathers' solid-beat footsteps, the famous sons' five were the hottest band in Hollywood...
...themselves last summer. Member after member, Republican and Democrat alike, rose to dispute Texas Ed. Pennsylvania's James G. Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only...