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Nobody knew how many kits the 45-odd manufacturers in the industry had already sold. But Toni hair wave, the biggest, which Gillette Safety Razor Co. bought out, had alone sold 20,000,000, planned to spend $7,000,000 on ads to boost sales this year. Gillette hopes to lure women out of beauty shops just as successfully as it once lured men out of barber shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Icy Wave | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gone Gal | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gone Gal | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Dance Director Nick Castle, who runs a school for professional children on the side, heard her improvising on Waitin' for the Train to Come In. He gave her a part in a Christmas revue. Toni stole the show. Later, she appeared in stage shows with Cab Galloway and a broadcast with Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gone Gal | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Between shows and trips to the studio, Toni likes to skip rope, ride bicycles, and listen to the Lone Ranger. She is not much impressed by her singing and is cool when her father insists on playing her records for visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gone Gal | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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