Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DOWNING B. JENKS President Rock Island Lines Chicago...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
Nivins was the manager of a rock 'n' roll singer named Melrose Baggy. Would Tom Clay take $200 and play a Baggy song on the air? No, said Clay. Later, they went for a ride in Clay's new Lincoln, and Nivins propositioned him again, offering $100. "I tell him, like, it was $200 last time," says Clay. "I also tell him this is one record which isn't going to happen. I find out later he has a tape recorder in his clothing...
...year. Sales of such fancy foods in the U.S. have more than doubled since 1954, last year passed the $100 million mark. Charlie Mortimer put General Foods into the field in 1957 for prestige purposes, now puts out 60 gourmet items from green turtle soup with Madeira wine to Rock Cornish game hen stuffed with wheat pilaf and roasted in savory sauce...
Pillow Talk. Hollywood's top box-office attractions, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, are brought together like a pair of 1960 Cadillacs in a one-car garage...