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...numbers not names made the season what it was, jamming the beaches, the bistros, the boulevards. Among the regulars, a social historian might have noted an evolutionary decline in the Riviera male. His feet are no longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On the Beach | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Japan (at the New Frontier) is an Oriental variety show imported by Steve Parker, travel-happy husband of Cinemactress Shirley MacLaine (TIME, June 22). Ballad-belting M.C. James Shigeta imitates Elvis Presley with accurate Occidental accent, Belly Dancer Rie Taniuchi (34-21-35) oscillates through a Latin American cha cha cha, and the Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape and samurai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Big Week in Vegas | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...every hand, he heard radios blaring the hastily pressed record Ingemar O Ingemar, learned that even an Ingemar Cha-Cha (lyrics by Actress Signe Hasso) would soon be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ingo's Return | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There are an estimated 1,000,000 serious square-dance buffs in the U.S., as dedicated to learning the intricacies of the ladies' chain or the left-hand star as any Arthur Murray graduate student is to the mastery of the cha cha cha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Hip Squares | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...want this woman or don't cha...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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