Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth night, Frank Sinatra will long since have warbled the Democrats' new campaign song (still a top secret, it goes under the code name of "Baby Shoes"). Seven Democratic Congresswomen will have orated on family and home and the political issues of the day. The state-by-state roll calls will be over. (To keep up the TV pace, delegations that ask to be polled will be temporarily bypassed on the roll call while the chairman's aide conducts an off-camera canvass.) The convention will have roared with cries of "The man who ..." Then, finally, will come...
...frenetic speaker is a 44-year-old singer-composer known as "Nervous Norvus" (real name: Jimmy Drake). His revenge consisted of writing and recording a nerve-jangling rock 'n' roll tune called Transfusion, and within three months it made its composer one of the most successful song peddlers in the business...
...years ago Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says...
...Small-town youngsters do more dating at an earlier age (beginning at 14 for girls) than their big-city cousins. They are also quicker to "go steady." ¶ Teen-agers laugh at parents' fears that rock 'n' roll is a menace to morals. They regard it merely as a "revved-up version of the Charleston or Lindy hop." What impresses editors more than such findings is Gilbert's pitch, backed by statistics, that "your future circulation depends on this youth market." Gilbert and his newspapers assume that young people are just as curious as their eternally...
...shipowner keeps a closer watch on tomorrow than Stavros Niarchos. He is building four dry cargo ships against the day, some five years hence, when the last wartime freighters start vanishing from the seas. He is exploring the possibility of roll-on, roll-off ships, and has already ordered his first bulk carriers in Sweden. He is so impressed with the benefits of an atomic-powered ship that he recently told an aide: "Let's build one now!" The staffer finally convinced him that he was looking too far ahead...