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...target, then turning on the power as she slides a quarter tone above or below. After Barbara appeared with Louis Armstrong at the Pasadena Jazz Festival last month, the master called an agent cross-continent and gave his own estimate: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: A Gasser | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...aware of the great responsibility incumbent upon us," she said. "We have been working all week on a new routine we call 'The Harvard Strut.' It's a real gasser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measures Taken To Thwart KKK | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

...shows built around singers on stools. Taking Frank Sinatra as his chief butt, Caesar prattled: "The whole show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence, ABC's Sinatra was appearing against Caesar as a guest on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Caesar drove home his needle by scoring a Trendex rating of 25.8 against Dinah's 14.5. "You can't tell much after one show," he said afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Average turnout before the jive-talk campaign: four recruits a week.) In Manhattan. Jazzbo Collins was pleased but unsurprised. "Recruiting spots would lend themselves. 'The Army needs YOU!' just wouldn't go. Whereas if you said, 'Man, dig that crazy uniform. It's a gasser.' Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Real Cool Yonder | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Grandma, what frantic eyes you have," said Red Riding Hood. "The better to dig you with, my dear." said the wolf. "And Grandma," said Red. "what a long nose you have." "Yeah." said the wolf, "it's a gasser." "And Grandma," said Red, "your ears are the most, to say the least." "How you do come on." said the wolf. "I know my ears aren't the greatest, but what're ya gonna do? Let's just say somebody goofed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Groovy Grimm | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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