Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph Stutzman, clothed in clerical robe and ego, wants to "come out" of Christianity, presents to earth and heaven the ludicrous spectacle of a man, facing the rock of ages, destruction-bent with peashooter in hand...
...rated against the Como-Boone-Sinatra crowd, are all shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers admitted that they never thought about the years ahead. Typical comment: "What's the hurry? When the time comes, I guess I'll know what...
Eligible Pupils. Trouble began in January. With intellectualism back in style, and with the out-of-state intellectuals (who have made Aspen a kind of wild-west Athens) clamoring about education, the school board grandly boosted athletic eligibility requirements from the rock bottom required by the state (passing grades in at least three subjects) to a new high...
...that might give the U.S. a fast boost. Most economists agree with harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who says: "It will be six months before the economy shows much pep." They think the recession will reach bottom soon, may be there even now. Then, say economists, it will rock along on a relatively even keel for six months or more before turning gradually upward in 1958's final quarter...
...president. An Arkansas cotton merchant's son, who peddled papers as a child "because I wanted to stand on my own two feet"-and now keeps them both conservatively on the ground-Banker McDonnell graduated (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University in 1917, worked up through Little Rock banks before moving to St. Louis in 1944, where he became the First National's president in 1948, its chairman last year...