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...this?" demanded Biff, but he was answered only by a nervous gasp...

Author: By C. Lewiss, | Title: Biff Bundie: The Bronze Rhinoceros | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers grin, giggle, gasp, even explode into laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Apr. 23, 1965 | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...ascends, his forehead glistening with sweat, his chest heaving, he steps out into a halo of white light. Turning slowly, deliberately, he fixes his enigmatic gaze on the audience for one hypnotic moment, then begins to dance. And, like the sound of the sea, there comes the great rushing gasp of an audience enchanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Man in Motion | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...Last Gasp...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Sedlacek Tops Bradley As Princeton Triumphs | 2/23/1965 | See Source »

After Princeton had pulled in front 68 to 50, Harvard made one abortive last gasp. Sedlacek hit two long jump shots; then after a Princeton basket McClung bucketed one of his Over-the-Head Specials and Bill Fegley swished a 25-footer. With the score 70-60, Gene Dressier cannily stole the ball from Bradley, raced downcourt, took a jump shot from the foul circle--and blew it. That ended the rally...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Sedlacek Tops Bradley As Princeton Triumphs | 2/23/1965 | See Source »

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