Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Boston's Mayor John Hynes did not want to hear arguments or evidence. He ordered that no licenses be issued for any more rock 'n' roll shows, and a Boston grand jury returned an indictment against Freed-under an old "anti-anarchy" law-for inciting "the unlawful destruction of property." Professing alarm, and perhaps jumpy over growing criticism of juvenile delinquency, officials in New Haven and Newark seized on the Boston incident as an excuse to ban scheduled Freed appearances...
...Little Rock's segregationists called it "that nigger-lovin' paper," and the local Citizens' Council labeled Editor Harry Ashmore "Public Enemy No. 1." But last week the Pulitzer Prize committee gave Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette and Editor Ashmore an unprecedented double prize for the role they played in last fall's crisis of conscience brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration order. Ashmore was cited for his editorials, the Gazette "for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage...
...Council tried hard to bring the Gazette to heel with a boycott. Last week Publisher Patterson acknowledged that the boycott had reduced daily circulation 10.6% to 88,068 and Sunday circulation 9.7% to 97,449 for the six-month period ending in March. Over the same period, Little Rock's Arkansas Democrat, which carefully avoided taking a stand on Faubus' defiance of federal authorities, gained more than 6,000 readers for both its daily and Sunday editions, now trails the Gazette on weekdays by 2,800 and leads it on Sunday...
National Reporting: Associated Press's Relman ("Pat") Morin, 50, winner of a 1951 Pulitzer for his coverage of the Korean war for his reporting on the Little Rock story; Clark Mollenhoff, 37, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for stories on labor racketeering so well documented that they were used by Senate investigators as leads in the devastating exposure of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck...