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Hollywood attempts to understand rock music

Yet another in the Palace’s eternal cavalcade of B movies, “The Big Beat” tried to amaze everyone with rock, the electrifying new music of the young, including noted musical youngsters Harry James and the Mills Brothers. I grabbed it from the April 24, 1958 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette because it starred veteran night-club singer Gogi Grant. It was to be her only movie, but the cast included Rose Marie and Hans Conried, who had to have been splendid together. 

Perhaps they meant success in women’s basketball

Okay, okay. I chose this groundbreaking science article from the April 24, 1958 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette principally to annoy five-foot-zero Natalie, my diminutive spouse. There’s not a word of truth to it, and both the professor and the Western Psychology Association should have known better.  But in 1958 the nation had great confidence in psychology as an exact science, and psychological tests promised to accurately predict and greatly improve human behavior. Everyone was urged to get an annual psychological exam. Enthusiasm peaked in the late 1960s but rapidly declined when it became clear that nobody was getting any happier.    

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