Word: jitterbugs
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...contest conducted by radio station WIND, Chicago [TIME, Sept. 8], is heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa...
...Shake, Rattle n Roll!" To a few these words mean nothing. But for ten million American teen-agers they are an invitation to the biggest dance craze to sweep the nation since the jitterbug: Rock n Roll. Though its roots are deep in the Rhythm and Blues of the South, Rock n Roll, with its "big beat," is an entirely new kind of music...
Strater had with him a modest little book which he allowed me to thumb through. The many photographs looked like shots of daring jitterbug steps, with one partner suspended in midair. Beneath each picture was a short paragraph of English prose and a diagram resembling an Arthur Murray dance step. I could not understand the corresponding Japanese...
...last we have reached Takarazuka, a unique town dedicated to laughter, spectacle and melody." For 30 yen (8?) the travelers can stare at the town's zoo, flock through its botanical gardens, jitterbug on its spring-mounted dance floor, or get married in its Shinto chapel. But the main event is the big show in the rambling, 4,000-seat theater-a rare, sukiyaki-like mixture of the Folies Bergeres, Radio City Music Hall, the Metropolitan Opera and native Kabuki. It is the Japanese teenagers' most popular musical entertainment...
...made music after hours. "We done a helluva lot of pressing in the mornings," he recollects. In 1949 he settled down in Paris. Ordinarily, he may be heard in a Left Bank boite called Club du Vieux Colombier, where beer comes high ($2 a bottle) and the inevitable French jitterbug couples in turtleneck sweaters make dancing perilous. Sidney's real money rolls in from other sources: concerts and recordings...