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Bobby Short (Trend EP). A young West Coast singer who manages-with the help of an excitable tremolo and an occasional uninhibited growl-to work a good bit of enthusiasm into the grooves. Gustiest number: Taking a Chance on Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...mine detectors, the Pennsylvania Railroad worked out an electronic device that shows up flaws at the juncture of two rail sections, at switches or through paved highway crossings. Operated by a track walker wearing earphones, the machine picks up defects by changing from a high-pitched tone to a growl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...cool, grey morning last week, a drab Molotov truck pulled up with a growl in front of the triple-arched "Freedom Gate" at Panmunjom. Pale hands and paler faces appeared from behind the grey canvas that covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Big Switch | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...drew sketches and wrote about herself and her friends. On Modigliani: "All he did was growl; he used to make me shiver from head to foot." On Jean Cocteau: "He gave me a necklace fit for a queen." On Utrillo: "Once, after I had been posing for him, I went around to take a look and was knocked off my pins to discover that he had been drawing a little country house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Violets for Kiki | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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