Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot House piano stylist Joseph G. Raposo '58 was heralded as "a great musician" by Boston disc jockey Sidney Toren in an interview last night, Known in music circles as "Symphony Sid" and a fly hipster (expert) on the "cool" school of jazz, Toren was equally lavish with praise for Raposo's quartet and its saxophonist, John C. M. Brust...
First played several years ago on Cleveland's radio station WJW by disc-jockey Alan Freed, Rock n Roll soon attracted over 20,000 people to a dance at the Cleveland Arena. When Freed moved to New York's WINS in 1954, the popularity of Rock n Roll had grown. In New York the energetic Mr. Freed disc jockeyed for WINS, answered his mail (15,000 letters a week), ran Rock n Roll Jubilee Balls in local ball parks, and encouraged 2,000 Alan Freed - Rock n Roll fan clubs...
...future, however, Rock n Roll devotees have no qualms. The tourists who spread Rock n Roll through France this summer, have, on returning, given local Rock n roll a French touch with new songs like Ay La Bah. With the influx of such new ideas, says Boston disc jockey Stan Richards, "Rock n Roll is to be reckoned with." And Mr. Freed rejoins " ' The Big Beat in American Music' was here one hundred years ago. It will be here a thousand years after we are all gone...
Told that she had a recurrence of cancer (she underwent surgery in 1953 for a malignancy, and last June for a ruptured spinal disc), Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the world's greatest woman athlete (track and field, basketball, golf), forced a smile and said: "Well, that's the rub of the green...
...most talented of the musical Bachs, Johann Sebastian, entertains the connoisseurs in Music 126, held in Music Building 2. Assistant Professor Allen Sapp is disc jockey...