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Word: gal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Jan Sterling (real name: Jane Sterling Adriance), 32, tough-gal-typed blonde cinemactress (Women's Prison), and Paul Douglas, 48, cinemactor (Green Fire): their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Adams. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned Gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Horse Sense: "We's done it, Miss Jenny! We's done it! Sunny Gal's done win the derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memory Lane | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

EAST COAST GAS WARS are forcing bie producers to chop prices to retailers. With some Manhattan service stations selling gas as low as 15.8? per gal., Socony Mobil, Esso Standard Oil and others have cut wholesale prices up to ½? per gal. in most of the seaboard marketing area from Maine to Washington, D.C., the first price reduction in nearly a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little old lady from Dubuque will find Auntie Mame some gal, but no lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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