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...culmination of the hard core rock-and-roll fan's love for Sha Na Na. Starting slowly with "Duke of Earl," the band increases the tempo and intensity of its performance with each succeeding song gently arousing the audience. With a passionate frenzy the group rocks through "Tossin' and Turnin," "Rama Lama Ding Dong," and the show-ending "At the Hop" to bring the audience to a breathless peak of excitement...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Sha Na Na: Revitalizing Revivalists | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

Hughes was the Judges' starting pitcher last year against Harvard, but this year he's stopped the throwin' in Waltham, and the tossin on Mt. Auburn St. and ventured out on a new career-turnin platters for WBUR, the Brandeis University radio station...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Crimson Nine Hosts Brandeis Squad Minus Mound Ace From Tommy's | 4/25/1972 | See Source »

...English group did a rendition of "Tossin' and Turnin'" five years ago. Who did the original...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE COMBATIVE INNOCENT | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Nature's good to folks," she used to say. "They never remember the rain and the storm when the sun comes out. That's why at my funeral I don't want nothin' but heaps of sunflowers. They're so full of life, always turnin' their faces toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Gun & Sewing Machine | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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