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...tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Eydie (pronounced Ee-dee) Gormé, 25, had a solid record hit in Too Close for Comfort (ABC-Paramount), and another is coming up strong in one of those too-innocent-for-comfort ditties called Mama, Teach Me to Dance. She has also accumulated three years of experience on Steve Allen's Tonight. As she sings, her rather long face looks vaguely troubled, and a slight, pathetic wave ruffles her smooth voice. In sweet songs, she sounds reedy and controlled. When she lets go, she squeezes her eyes in a kind of happy passion, and bounces discreetly, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Crop on Top, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...years ago, Bronx-born Songstress Gormé had reached the eminent position of export manager for a theatrical-equipment company, reached TV via dance-band and nightclub jobs. On TV she has sung while sitting on a bough overhanging the Niagara River hard by the falls, and with a high wind snatching the notes from her throat atop the RCA Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Crop on Top, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Lionette, Jack Ready, and Duke Gorm- ley singled for the other Lowell hits. In the infield the Bellboys played errorless ball...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Lowell Nine Wins Pennant By Conquering Adams, 4-1 | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

...Axel Gorm Andersen, who lives in Woodside, L. I., is five. Last spring, when the Nazis invaded Norway, little Axel found himself in Trondheim, 4,000 miles from home. Mrs. Andersen had taken Axel to show him to his great-aunt and left him there for a visit, never dreaming that the Nazi war machine would sweep that far north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Odyssey of Axel | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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