Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buying craze spread to items whose prices were not cut; housewives felt they had "saved" so much on loss leaders they spent freely on everything. Sales of women's shoes and muslin sheets were 200% above normal at Macy's. Storewide volume in Gimbels and Abraham & Straus jumped...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...London's airport three weeks ago, inspectors found an 18-year-old Indian girl with $5,600 worth hidden under her sari. In India, which bans gold imports without license, air smugglers were reported dropping gold by parachute and landing small gold-laden planes in remote clearings. This craze for gold was reflected in Wall Street last week where speculators snatched up gold-mining stocks (e.g., Dome and Homestake), giving them a rise of as much as 3 points. Despite the Treasury's denials, speculators were betting the official $35-an-ounce price of gold, frozen since...
...syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from...
Pittsburgh-born Enroll Garner, playing trademark tunes such as When Johnny Comes Marching Home and My Heart Stood Still, displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat...