Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of investigating labor rackets, the U.S. Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan has found corruption under rock after rock-and on more than one occasion the enterprising U.S. press has helped the committee turn over the rocks. But last week the McClellan committee took a look at some of the press's own labor relations and found corruption, if not under a rock, at least on the New York loading docks. In three days of testimony it became all too clear that over a period of many years New York dailies have been paying...
...ROCK 'N' ROLL...
...They think I'll be good for recruiting," said the flabby, long-haired teenager. "Look what a lift the American Army is getting because Elvis Presley* joined up." Thus, last January, Terence Williams, known as Terry Dene to millions of British rock-'n'-roll addicts, donned an army uniform and set out to do his bit for Blighty. Result for Britain's army: a nuisance, men, a ruddy nuisance...
Tight Pants. But such is the faith of British rock 'n' rollers-to say nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned...
Other stars have leaped onto the bandwagon for more mundane reasons. Why does Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, plug safety razors? Says a friend: "Naturally, because he can use the dough." Fred MacMurray and Wife June Haver lent their faces to American Gas for a $6,000 kitchen, plus air conditioning for their ranch. Claims one bubbly member of Ad Row: "We can give very high-style publicity. Now we are selecting stars, not soliciting them...