Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stricken. By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it. Seated there, Adams fitted the nickname that he acquired back in New Hampshire: "the Rock...
Would you be good enough to send me . . . six copies of the issue of the CRIMSON containing your review of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? I enclose a check for $2.00 which should cover mailing cost...
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN is picking up speed on U.S. railroads. New England's Boston & Maine Railroad has ordered a Talgo train similar to the ones being built for the New Haven and the Rock Island. American Car & Foundry will build the long, low streamliner, have it ready for delivery...
Striking at the core of these basic problems, Rock n Roll has won the approval of the nation's top recording stars. Perry Como, Georgia Gibbs, and Eddie Fisher have Rocked n Rolled, and sold records. But "the big beat" has brought with it many new vocal performers. Most are from the South, like Nappy Brown, Earl Bostick, and Chuck Berry, whose recording of Maybelline now leads the hit parade. Many have gotten their start in the Amateur Shows at Harlem's New Apollo Theatre, the nation's Rock n Roll center...
Like all successes, Rock n Roll, has had imitations. Wishing to capitalize on its great success, certain musicians have exploited Rock n roll to promote new types of music. so the first popular Cha-Cha was titled Rockin; the Cha-Cha. for the 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...