Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, when Anderson replaced hearty George Humphrey, it looked to some Republicans as though Treasury might have swapped rock salt for gelatin. Humphrey was categorical, authoritative (said a Cabinet member: "When George speaks, everybody listens"), and dogmatically orthodox. He even inspired last year's hard congressional attack on defense spending and foreign aid by warning that, if spending were not cut, "You will have a depression that will curl your hair...
From the moment he arrived in London for his six-week rock-'n'-roll tour of Britain, Tennessee's flaxen-haired Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, made himself at home in the headlines. The tiny, pony-tailed Mississippi schoolgirl he had brought with him, he proudly announced, was none other than his third wife, Myra. Her age: 15. When reporters gaped, Lewis, resplendent in blue velvet trousers, casually drawled: "I can assure you that my wife is all woman, even though she looks kinda young...
...busy to buy her a wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America's deep delinquent South." "He could and should." stormed the Sunday People, "be arrested by the police," reminding...
Catcalls & Combs. Even rock-'n'-roll fans, whose tolerance of their idols had previously seemed inexhaustible, had had enough. At his first appearance, they booed and catcalled for 20 minutes, while Lewis nervously ran a comb through his long hair. "Go home, baby snatcher!" they screamed. "Go wheel your wife in a pram!" After one more such appearance, Jerry's managers decided to call the tour off. "I did want to stay here long enough to get a wedding ring," whimpered Myra at the airport. Fumed Jerry: "I don't feel guilty about nuttin...
Chinese Homer. In North Little Rock, Ark., Yee Yim Hong got permission from a court to Americanize his name, changed it to Yim Hong...