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...swings one cat, "Mr. President, bang-de-dawd-o-dawd, do you think-de-ding-di-dink the education bill will pass, dingy dong de-doong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Bang-de-dawd-o-dawd | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Hinky Dink's. The Trader does little to discourage the legend that his leg was snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Polynesia at Dinnertime | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

During Tom Brown's school days at Rugby a century ago, for fastidious Dink Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Farewell to Flannel | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...There will be no regulations on weekends, except for the Saturday football games when 'dink' and button regulations will be strictly enforced...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

...center of attention for most of the week was a small, bronzed man whose athletic feats were relatively modest. He was Dink Templeton, track coach at Stanford from 1921 to 1939, whom varsity coach Bill McCurdy, one of his former pupils, calls "the greatest track coach going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Templeton Visits McCurdy, Aids Track Men | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

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