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...affectionately known as Her Nibs Miss Gibbs, a reference to her diminutive stature; in New York City. Gibbs toured with Sid Caesar and Danny Kaye, made dozens of TV and radio appearances and recorded some of the era's biggest hits, including Tweedle Dee, recorded earlier by LaVern Baker, and the tango-inspired No. 1 hit Kiss of Fire...
Senior Tim Galebach took a pre-holiday trip to Indiana yesterday, travelling to the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center to compete in his first NCAA tournament, which was held on the LaVern Gibson Championship Course. Galebach, competing in the 10k, completed the course in 34:17:8, for a 227th-place finish out of 250 competitors. The winner, Brigham Young’s Josh Rohatinksy, posted a time of 30:44.9. In team competition, Colorado scored a runaway victory, capturing the team trophy with a total of 94 points. Wisconsin finished in second, totalling 142 points, with Iona coming...
...blithe and ethereal entity among the harsher staccatos of the rest of the album. Billotte also saves two of the album’s other great songs, covers of Etta James’ “I’ll Dry My Tears,” and LaVern Baker’s “Bumblebee.” Soul covers aren’t usually normal fodder for indie garage bands, but the Casual Dots tackle these with grace and panache, especially on the latter, where the spare bass-less instrumentation really captures the song’s vintage...
...DIED. LAVERN BAKER, 67, 1950s rhythm-and-blues diva; from complications of diabetes; in New York City. During the early rock-'n'-roll era, white performers found success by making cover versions of such hits of hers as 1954's Teedlee Dee, but Baker got belated revenge when she was inducted into rock's Hall of Fame...
That same poll also found that the proportion of people who smoke becomes greater with increasing age, which initially suggests that more people are picking up the habit of smoking during college. But according to Candice Pierce-Lavern, director of government affairs for the American Cancer Society, this is unlikely since 90 percent of the smoking population starts before the age of 18 and most people develop the habit between the ages...