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Nothing in Washington's International Jazz Festival was quite so impressive as the sight and sound of an ample woman swathed in yellow chiffon walking down the aisle, borrowing hats, a mink cape and a couple of purses, while singing Packin' Up (for a trip to the "Great Beyond"). Singer Marion Williams was remarkable not only for her display of a gold tooth embellished with a star, but also for her voice-supple, easy-ranging and capable of lyric flights and hallelujah shouts of shattering force. Singer Williams and the other members of her Stars of Faith group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Gospelers | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Taking one look at the painting of pistol-packin' Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton on TIME'S April 24 cover, the Communist-licensed Berlin daily Neues Deutschland shrieked that the U.S. had discovered a deadly new weapon: "a warmonger with sex appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Speaking Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...faculty members by prompting men regardless of seniority. Though he sometimes gets up at 2 a.m. and works until dawn, he always has time for children. Visitors often come upon him and his four grandchildren ("Gumdrops," he calls them), rolling and shrieking on the floor, while his wife ("Pistol Packin' Mamma") looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prophet on a Trapeze | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Pistol Packin' Yaleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Harum-Scarum | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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