Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Transition. The changeover is any thing but abrupt. "We have been in transition for about five years," explains Ralph. As part of the transition, the younger Lazarus began taking on more and more of his father's responsibilities, logged 150,000 air miles annually, checking on Federated stores from coast to coast. Last year he formally became chief executive. "Ten years ago," says Ralph, who became president in 1957, "if we disagreed, his decision would pre vail. Now I guess mine would...
Born. To Princess Joan of Luxembourg, 32, younger daughter of former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, and Prince Charles, younger brother of Grand Duke Jean, monarch of the pocket principality: their first child, a daughter, prematurely and by caesarean, while Joan was visiting her parents in Manhattan. Name: Charlotte, after Charles's mother, the grand duchess...
...note for note, word for word, the brilliance of the new Beatles. In three months, it has sold a staggering 2,500,000 copies-each a guaranteed package of psychic shivers. Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga. A Day in the Life, for example, is by all odds the most disturbingly beautiful song the group has ever produced. The narrator's mechanical progress through the day ("Dragged...
Pilgrimage to Liverpool. Now that the Beatles' music is growing more complex and challenging, they are losing some younger fans. Teenyboppers, most of whom would rather shriek up than freak out, are turning off at A Day in the Life, doubling back through Strawberry Fields and returning to predictably cute 1964-model Beatles-in the form of such blatantly aping groups as the Monkees...
...Rolling Stones, the Animals-revitalized rock by closely imitating (and frankly crediting) such Negro originators of the style as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Soon the Negro "soul sound" surged into the white mass market. The old-line blues merchants have enjoyed a revival, and a younger, slicker breed of rhythm-and-blues singers-notably Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and the Supremes-have taken up commanding positions on the sales charts. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins, the white kids didn't know anything about the music," says Veteran Blues Shouter Waters, 52. "Now they...