When The New York Post published a story that a new coffee-table book, Bandstand Diaries, revealed stories about the secret gay lives of some of the dancers, sales of the book went through the roof.
On July 9, 1956, 26-year-old Dick Clark stood in front of the cameras at WFIL-TV in West Philadelphia, wearing a crisp suit and a smile. That afternoon, he officially took over as host of Bandstand, a ...