Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Song Is for the Bird's (Spike Jones; Victor). "There are songs for people, and songs for dogs, and songs for monkeys and even for frogs," sings the Jones quartet irreverently, but T.S.I.-F.T.B...
This week in Bangkok, the gaily colored, spike-towered capital of Thailand, eight non-Communist nations with vital interests in Southeast Asia are gathering to decide on practical measures for blocking further Communist expansion in that uneasy area...
...quieted down, the band really gave cause for cheering by playing Mr. Finnegan's "Variations On A Well-Known Theme." The theme was "Marching to Pretoria" and was played as Sousa might have, then in the style of Walter Shaman's "Dragnet" theme, and again after the manner of Spike Jones. Finally, the band imitated the Katzenjammer Kids by singing the song in Dutch. It was a very successful number...
...free man," has no immediate plans to marry a nightclub dancer named Joanne Rio, whom he met four years ago in a Hollywood church. "I have to wait out the projects." giggled he. "Another year won't make me an old man." No sooner did he thus spike rumors of romance than one of his other projects panned out. An Oklahoma oil well, half-owned by Liberace and his ever-present brother George, blew itself in, began flowing at a heartening 100 barrels an hour...
...Spike Webb," said a reminiscent Pentagon four-striper last week, "taught you self-reliance. I guess that's the reason we liked him so much. When you were in the ring, you were on your own, and he brought out all the guts you had. He couldn't give us courage, but he could uncover what courage...