Many Americans born in the 1950s like to think of London in 1961 as a set from My Fair Lady. Lots of rosy-cheeked Julie Andrews types, coal fireplaces, afternoon tea and men rushing about in forest-green tweed. In these cinematic imaginations, teenage guys look like the brooding Beatles during their Hamburg, Germany, period, while teenage girls are bubb…
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