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...Brown game, the Crimson was leading, 3 to 2, when a combination of poor control by pitcher Andy Ward, sloppy fielding and some bloop hits accounted for an eight run Bruin inning and the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '55 Nine Beats Tufts, Loses to Brown, 15-8 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...Samuel Goldwyn's handsome production and a group of sincere performances directed by Mark (Champion) Robson. Robert Keith, a Broadway veteran playing his first screen role, acts the heroine's sympathetic father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings and then decided to give the heartstrings an extra wrench by using them both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Party Song | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Squaring his phalanxes for the annual Crime-Lampy diamond monsoon this afternoon, funnymanager Georgie (Bloop-Bleep) Blimpton revealed at the twenty-third hour last night that he had signed on a two-headed goat for double duty in the infield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cringes As 'Poonsters Double-Deal | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...finished Bloop, Bleep last December, but kept it in his pocket until Open the Door Richard had died down, on the theory that the U.S. could not stand two such songs at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Drip Song | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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