Word: dened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning of all, they allowed children...
...Singer Dene's soul-searing experience as Rifleman 23604106 began the first day, when "I was standing up there with my tin tray, having my bit of food plonked down in front of me like all the others." Barracks life was even more indigestible: "The thought of me in that little bed, with 15 other blokes around ... I felt real sick. It was grim, man-just grim." Within 48 hours Terry's delicate psyche collapsed, and the brass carted him off gently to a hospital ward...
...least 2,000,000 young men of about the same age as he is now [19] went to war against Germany and Italy. Almost every man jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical discharge and was sent home to his wife, Singer Edna Savage, 22. Edna had had her eye blackened by Terry before they were married, saw him arrested for drunken brawling three times...
...such is the faith of British rock 'n' rollers-to say nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned them...
Even if he failed as a recruiter, Terry Dene could take comfort that somebody still wanted to recruit him. At St. George's Church, in London's working-class Camberwell district, Anglican Father Geoffrey Beaumont followed prayers for a new bishop with another: "Let us pray for Terry Dene, a young man who has been very ill." Father Beaumont, already mildly celebrated for his use of jazz during sacred services (TIME, April 1, 1957), explained: "Terry Dene represents the sort of thing I want to bring into my church...