Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freely acknowledged by San Francisco's way-gone Don Sherwood (TIME, Sept. 9) that he is the world's greatest disk jockey. But when he gets too far away from his records, he tends to set some-chiefly for wild talk, editorializing and plain old airborne nonsense. Tireless champion of all underdogs, Sherwood thought that he had found a great cause last April: New Mexico's Navajo Indians. Commentator Sherwood was soon berating the U.S. Government for freezing Navajo funds (it has not), arguing that the tribe is ill fed, ill housed (it is not), trying...
...Francisco's KGO-TV, which believes that disk jockeys should stick to their musical saddles, told Sherwood to shut up about the Indians. He sulked. "Somebody got to somebody," he said during his TV variety show, "and I can't mention the Navajos . . ." Click! and he was off the air, replaced by a traffic safety film. He fought back on his morning radio show over rival KSFO, playing Indian music and calling KSFO "Radio Free San Francisco...
...mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in and out of progressive schools, worked as a shipping clerk, disk jockey, even a jingle judge. "It was easy-throw out the dirty ones, and the one that was left was the winner," remembers Mike. He took acting lessons from Broadway's Methodman Lee Strasberg, then in Chicago teamed with Elaine ("extremely rude, a very dark bohemian girl...
From the heavens around, above and below -blue-black except for the myriad brilliant pinpoints of nontwinkling stars, the glow of the mist-shrouded earth and the hard white disk of the sun -invisible, cosmic radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows? By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles. He cannot smoke because of fire and explosion hazards; the cabin pressure is so low that he cannot even whistle to keep up his courage...
Wrapped in a package called "The Big Beat," Disk Jockey Alan Freed has long rolled across the land, introducing rock 'n' roll stars and keynoting gone music, with the express intention of inciting his teen-age followers to happy frenzy. Fortnight ago, the acknowledged "King of Rock 'n' Roll" rolled into Boston and set up shop in its 7,200-seat Arena. Almost 5,000 hip kids poured in the Arena to catch his 17 acts, including four bands, and starring Dreamboat Groaner Jerry Lee Lewis...