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...hear her tell it, Italian-born Cora Galenti had found the Fountain of Youth. She even gave the name to her Sunset Boulevard salon. There and at her lavish Hollywood home she treated thousands of women and many men. When they went in, the skin on their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fountain of Fire | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Thunderflash in Brussels | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...worked briefly in the family lumber business, skippered a PT boat during World War II. A friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, Shevlin is an avid big-game hunter, polo player, deep-sea fisherman and golfer. Durie and Tom Shevlin now own a white colonial mansion across North Ocean Boulevard from the Joseph P. Kennedy estate in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An American Genealogy | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Lyndon Johnson hit Teheran as though he were running for Shah-and if the warmth of his welcome was an indication, he might be able to get the job. With Wife Lady Bird and Daughter Lynda Bird, 18, the Vice President swept down Eisenhower Boulevard, so named after Ike's 1959 visit. Three times Johnson confused his smartly uniformed police escort by halting the motorcade and hopping out of his car to grasp all the outstretched hands within reach (one observer counted 300 in five minutes). The crowds responded with the highest praise they knew: "Javid Shah!" (Long live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: On the Way with LBJ. | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...Weeks in Another Town. The movie business has long suffered a fascination with its own filth. Bombshell, Sunset Boulevard, The Bad and the Beautiful: the vaults are loaded with ugly stories about the beautiful people. A few of these films are works of considerable art; some of them are honest hate letters from people Hollywood has hurt; most of them, and that includes this picture, are what is known in the trade as pay dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pay Dirt | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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