Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm glow of the freedom of Brown was not to last, and would never be recaptured. "The parting from old Brown was a sorrowful duty," wrote Johnny Rock. "All the fellows wore long faces, and words were few but earnest." Now he turned to another struggle of another kind. "It had been understood from the beginning," he said, "that I would enter my father's office...
...dance of their own. At once Mrs. Rockefeller consulted her husband, suggesting that J.D.R. Jr. hold a musicale instead. "If we could have fine music . . . Madame Nordica, if possible. She was born in New England and is a good, true woman and a most delightful singer." But Johnny Rock wanted a dance, and Johnny Rock tactfully declared his independence and got his way; then, having gained his point, he consented to call in the musicians as well. "What a magnificent program it is!" he rejoiced. Abby was there dancing waltzes, two-steps and the lancers; his father was there, resplendent...
...branch has just been cut and the sap is running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would...
...Sunday," said a British theater operator last week, in what had to be regarded as a masterpiece of understatement even for Britons, "is regarded as the difficult night in cinemas." The specific difficulty was the effect that a U.S. rock-'n'-roll movie was having on Britain's notorious teen-age delinquents, the Teddy Boys. Scarcely a week goes by without some headline proclaiming the latest exploits of the "Teds.'' But nothing before had sparked them to the frenzy induced by the gross tick-tock of Rock Around the Clock...
Throughout the nation an estimated 3,000 Teddy Boys carried on with such abandon that the councils of a dozen towns met in special session to consider banning Rock Around the Clock. Near theaters where it was still being shown, police mobilized in droves. The Teds themselves met the challenge with glee. "Just you come dahn 'ere on Sunday," said one young Londoner as the difficult week drew on. "They'll never 'old us Teds then, no matter 'ow many 'eavies they 'ave. We'll all be out for a giggle...