Fifties News

Rockefeller And The Good Oil From Asia

Saturday July 3, 1999
Wary of the limelight but cashed up and ready to go, John D. Rockefeller 3rd had an all-consuming interest in Asian art. He founded the pioneering Asia Society in New York in the fifties, and his legacy has now come to Sydney TREASURES OF ASIAN ART: SELECTIONS FROM THE MR. & MRS. JOHN D. ROCK

The Elvis Revolution

Thursday July 1, 1999
America In The Fifties, 7.30pm, SBS: Victory euphoria and a sense of ascendancy give way to disenchantment as the postwar boomers begin to suspect that there's more to life than by-the-numbers enticements in Coca-Cola advertisements or the inner glow of Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman <

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