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Cheerleaders (NBC). A half-hour "gang comedy" about life through the ever active perspective of the pom-pom girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And in the Can... | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Quaker meetings on Sundays. They were healthy and moderately affluent. The girls did well in school, and though Vernette was the more intellectual, Cheryl got good grades, played the violin skillfully enough to qualify for a city-wide youth orchestra, and read a lot. She was, appropriately, a pom-pom girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Washington University in St. Louis, who is the board's newest member. Republican Weidenbaum favored Ford's proposals to stimulate investment and eliminate regulatory laws that increase prices, yet he regarded the WIN button campaign as juvenile hoopla and jested that the next logical step would be "pom-pom girls and cheerleaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARD OF ECONOMISTS: Recession Now, Trouble Ahead | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Maybe it's the cheerleaders, who wouldn't be caught dead doing any sort of straight cheer. Harvard does not have a line of pretty coeds with pom-poms doing cute routines, but rather a casual bunch that stroll around on the sidelines giving an "H" and an "A", etc. now and then, but mostly clowning...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Athletics: A Casual Romance | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...fact, the professionals on New Zealand's 119-year-old Brancepeth sheep station were impressed with Prince Charles' ability to fit in wherever he was during an official visit to meet the Kiwis. Although one dissent was recorded - a cry of "Go home, Pom" directed at his mother Queen Elizabeth after the whole family had got together to open the Commonwealth Games - the wel come accorded Charles by local teeny-boppers was more typical of the royals' reception. "Oh, you gorgeous thing!" cried one of the girls, who were out in force wherever he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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