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...Chipmunk Song (The Chipmunks; Liberty). No escape from this one. Songwriter Ross (Witch Doctor) Bagdasarian's clamorous fable about a trio of quarreling, caroling chipmunks sold more records (an estimated 3,500,000) in a shorter time (five weeks) than any other disk in the past year and probably in recording history. The "chipmunks" are actually Bagdasarian's own voice recorded at varying speeds. Having screeched their way through Christmas at the top of the pop charts, the little beasts seem destined to meet the Easter bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...little fellow, skinny and pale, oblivious to his receding hairline. His chin was receding, too, as were his eyes in little chipmunk pits far in his skull. He was very nervous, and twisted the sheets of very thin blue paper from which he read...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Older citizens, if they search their memories hard, can still remember when Elizabeth Taylor appeared opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home, was seen around Hollywood playing with rabbits and turtles, and wrote a story about a pet chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just Friends | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force has animated the Baghdad Pact from the outset, kept it alive when it was threatened with dissolution after Britain's invasion of Suez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High-Priced Pea Picker | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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