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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christmas with Slim Whitman...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...jacket also tells us that the person playing the piano on the vinyl is named Hargus "Pig" Robbins and that Slim has cut a single entitled "Where Is the Christ in Christmas?" It is everything one can do to peel the plastic off the cover...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...music. Why, this is no hitman or rapist perverting the meaning of Christmas! Instead, it sounds like someone held a microphone to your father as he shoveled snow one day last Janaury and sung a few tunes under his breath. You get the feeling that someone called Slim one day and said, "Slim, if you're not busy, why don't you take a half-hour or so and come on down to the studio and record a Christmas album?" And Slim (who is, by the way, emphatically not) must have responded, "Gee, I'd like...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...epee squad faltered somewhat, chalking up a slim 5-4 victory over Purchase, and calling into question the team's depth this year...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Men, Women Fencers Flaunt Superior Depth In Weekend Matches With Tufts, Purchase | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...planned the Pearl Harbor operation, warned of that possibility as late as September 1941, when battle practice had already begun. "Japan cannot vanquish the United States," he told a gathering of old schoolmates. "Therefore we should not fight the United States." As Yamamoto saw it, there was only one slim chance for victory if war with the U.S. were to be pursued. A massive surprise Midway on Pearl Harbor might inflict enough damage on the U.S. Pacific Fleet based there to win an early truce from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day Japan Lost the War | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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