What's  inside the 1950s' Most Wanted? ™
Allen Ginsberg . Rice-A-Roni . Lou Costello . Nikita Khrushchev . Art Carney . Stanley Kramer . Play-Doh . 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T . Tang . Hula Hoops . Profiles in Courage . Mr. I. Magination . Mike Todd . Mad . Kukla, Fran, and Ollie . Credit Cards . Yoko Ono . Chrysler C-300 . Sam Phillips . Redd Foxx . "It's All In The Game" . Sunset Boulevard . Judy Tyler . SS United States . The Weavers . Captain Kangaroo . Josef Stalin . Senor Wences . Mr. Potato Head . High Noon . The Steve Allen Show . Bridey Murphy . Packard . Bobby Darin . Adam West . Circus Boy . Shemp Howard . Ed Sullivan . Silly Putty . The Marx Brothers . Ding Dong School . Elizabeth II . Tony Perkins . Captain Video . Eugene O'Neill . Andrea Doria . Richard J. Daley . Big Bopper . Alfalfa . Dick Clark . Checkers . George Reeves                                 Contents
  1. This Could Be The Start of Something Big: Everyday things that started in the 50s
  2. Take Me To Your Leader: The powers that were
  3. Done Got Hip To Your Jive: Some fifties vernacular
  4. Put Your Glad Rags On: 10 fifties fashions
  5. Better Led Than Red: 10 fifties fads
  6. Oh, Baby, That's What I Like!: 10 things we ate
  7. Who Wrote The Book?: 10 publishing milestones
  8. Let's Go For A Ride: 10 cars that made the fifties roll
  9. Elvis Has Entered The Building: 10 milestones in the life of Tupelo's finest
  10. Music! Music! Music!: Stories behind the fifties hits
  11. Serendipity Doo Wop: The rules of the game
  12. B-Sides, This: Some notable flip sides
  13. Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay - Not!: 10 indicators  of the first wave's demise
  14. Somewhere There's Music: 10 unlikely recording artists
  15. I'm Ready For My Close-up: 10 fifties film debuts
  16. The Next Film You See: 10 cinematic oddities
  17. YOU!!! Are A Blabbermouth!!!: 10 Hollywood rats
  18. Hello, Norma Jeane: A decade in the life of Marilyn Monroe
  19. You Can Say That Again: Fifties movie quotes for our time
  20. And Now A Word From Our Sponsors: 10 celebrity shills
  21. I DON'T Remember Mama: 10 once popular, now forgotten hit TV shows
  22. I Coulda Been A Contender: 10 proposed fifties television shows
  23. Because We LIKE You: Kids' television in the fifties
  24. Fun For A Girl And A Boy: A fifties toy box
  25. Now Here's Something We Hope You REALLY Like: 10 fifties cartoons
  26. Ain't That A Shame: Discredited urban legends of the fifties
  27. You Can't Catch Me: 10 crimes and criminals of the decade
  28. Fasten Your Seatbelts - It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night: 10 fifties disasters
  29. The Whole Town's Talking: Scandalous behavior in the fifties
  30. Once I had A Secret Love: 10 bi- or gay fifties celebrities
  31. Vaya Con Dios: Some final words from the dear departed
  32. See You Later, Alligator: Celebrity deaths
  33. The Signpost Up Ahead: What 10 future celebrities were up to in the fifties
  34. It Doesn't Matter Anymore: 10 familiar things that came to an end                                                                                                                       

                                                 

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