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State College) College Heights
Herald, June 27, 1952, p. 5
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Musical Sensation,"
(Louisville) Courier-Journal, October 26, 1952, sect. 5
"Hilltoppers, Musical Variety, Are Invading New York To Appear on
TV," (Bowling Green) Park City
Daily News, October 26, 1952, p. 7
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1952-53, p. 37
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Feb. 1, 1953, pp. 6-7
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College) College Heights Herald,
March 20, 1953, p. 3
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Kentucky State College) College Heights
Herald, December 11, 1953, p. 2
"'The Hilltoppers' Get Together Again To Warble Like They Did Back
at Western State College,"
(Louisville) Courier-Journal, December 26, 1953, p. 5
"Formed By Accident, Hilltoppers Still Operate on Parttime Basis,"
Down Beat, February 10, 1954,
p. 3
"They're Really Teenagers at Heart: the Hilltoppers," Recordland,
September 1954, p. 29
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pp. 12-13
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1957, p, 20
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State College) College Heights
Herald, December 12, 1958, p. 8
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Daily News, December 15, 1958
"Hilltoppers Appear Here in Program," (Western Kentucky State
College) College Heights Herald,
May 22, 1959, p. 15
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Courier-Journal, November 5, 1972
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May 19, 1975
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College Heights Herald, October
29, 1981
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1986, pp. 26-27
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Mason, The New Yorker, May 26, 1986,
pp. 30-38
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(Bowling Green) Park City Daily News,
February 15, 1987
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'n' roll," (Western Kentucky
University) College Heights Herald, March 22, 1988, p. 13
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May 27, 2000, p. 15
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1999)
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