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Einstein, James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley, Disneyland

'55 was not just the year of Rock n' Roll. The Warsaw Pact was signed, Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister in ill-health, and Berbers from Algeria invaded Morocco. The 1955 verse of Billy Joel's song, however, remembers some of the losses and the recreational highlights of the year...