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...There was sake, of course," reported the disgruntled American tourist in Tokyo last week, "but the girls seemed most interested in plying us with highballs. 'Let's dance!' one of them said, stubbing out her cigarette, and we all cha-chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Vanishing Geisha | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Rome the bongo drums throbbed unnecessarily. Tuxedos dropped to the floor in homage. Blue-blooded Borgheses and warm-blooded entertainers stamped their feet, but hardly to get circulation going. Cinemelon Anita Ekberg had just slumped with exhaustion after dropping a shoulder strap in a loamy cha-cha-cha, and now a Turkish bellydancer was grinding away at Anita's challenge: "Let's see you do better." She did. With fundamental gesture-and no clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...blocks of ice were brought in to cool the pool, and enough pent-up steam was allowed to escape into the London air to sweat out a whole year's hangovers. The cavernous chambers were abustle with well-stacked nautch girls, brushing bare bellies with Indian waiters serving cha-patties. The only washroom was carefully labeled "Co-educational-On Your Honor Please!" Behind the bar a lily-twined manneken-pis arched a thoughtful stream at a stone death's head that looked like many a guest would feel on the morning after. There were two dozen freshly made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bea's Blast | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...purple-and-silver train that comes through the town from West Coast Champion to The Purple People Eater. Record manufacturers are cranking out imitative disks as fast as they can make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser (a Yiddish version). Disk jockeys all over the country have invited their listeners to draw the Purple People Eater (both the jockeys and listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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