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...legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...plays these days, dance halls develop a tremor under the thud of teen-age feet. The reason: a vigorous new conga-style dance number called The Bunny Hop, in which every verse ends with "Hop! Hop! Hop!" For Anthony, it all started last spring, when he heard that the Coke set of San Francisco's Balboa High School had worked up the dance. Anthony contrived a tuneless tune, recorded it (for Capitol), ordered a batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation with parents, who regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Hour. As Beirut buzzed with the news that the stricken Champollion was about to break up, 25,000 curious townspeople streamed out to the sand dunes. Lebanese troops cleared a way to the water's edge and set up box seats for Beirut's dignitaries; Coke and peanut vendors did a roaring trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Wreck of the Champollion | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...first calls went to a loyal McPherson alumna, Rozella Switzer, the town's Democratic postmistress. Rozella, a widow in her 40's, runs an efficient post office, smokes Pall Malls, drinks an occasional bourbon & coke, likes politics and people. She was curious about the African students and invited them over. Two nights later they sat comfortably around her living room, sipping coffee, browsing through her books, listening to her records-and talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The One-Town Skirmish | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...haired seven-year-old granddaughter touched an oil torch to a 6-ft. fuse, which began to sputter like a Fourth of July sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched a button which fired a rocket through a plug in an open hearth furnace already going, and 250 tons of flaming, molten steel poured into a massive ladle. Thus last week, less than two years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Firing Up | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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