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Word: avalon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some good copy this year, and I am grateful, but it really looks grim today for the Lions, who may have the first 0-9 season in their history by dinner tonight. Columbia is pulling all stops, however. Last night at Barnard there was a sock hop, and Frankie Avalon was there with Conway Twitty. If the Lions can pull out a win today, these sock hops could well become weekly affairs, ergo, as commonplace as losing. Oddly enough, Columbia's sports news office has started sending out fencing information, rather than football, and one wonders if the Light Blue...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

HARVARD-PRINCETON: Princeton has played every pussyfooting team in the league, getting warmed up for big games like today's. This is an excellent place to apply the Bobbysox to Stockings Theory of Transition, as espoused by Professor Francis Avalon. Is Princeton ready for stockings? That is the crucial question here. I think the team is ready, and I think there are some good football players on the Tiger squad. The scoring will come early, and most of it will come from Princeton. Claude Balls couldn't have written a better script for this exciting, but sad, 21-17 Princeton...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennines | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...Frankie Avalon "Bobbysox to Stockings" tradition, I went to Brine's in Harvard Square and picked up my first pair of Adidas running shoes, the $13.50 variety, to replace my P.F. Flyers. Immediately, I went out and ran four miles in the stiff new shoes and had a new set of blisters...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Jock, Beef Stew, and the Boston Marathon | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Ford Foundation, the Avalon Foundation, and the United States Public Health Services are providing most of the construction funds. A two million dollar grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will be used to support faculty and staff over a ten-year period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School to Construct Sex Center | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...school and begin touring the Southwest, first with an uncle's band, later with his own outfit. Many of the dates were at what he calls "dancin' and fightin' clubs," and he prudently trained himself to perform anything that a customer might request, whether it was Avalon or Tumbling Tumbleweeds or a jazz tune like Easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Hip Hick | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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