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...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Tooling up to a Memphis induction center in his li'l ol' unpretentious cream-colored Cadillac, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley, a hulking 21, went bravely inside, peeled off his inconspicuous scarlet and black jacket and other trappings, permitted medicos to examine him. The doctors' verdict: a fine broth of a lad, pelvis and all, eligible for drafting-probably to serve in some special services division, tote some such gone weapon as a guitar. Before rolling off in his Caddie, Elvis allowed that the intelligence test he had taken was a breeze. Groaned the bobby-soxers' golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Cave Dreamboat. A group of anthropologists had kind words to say for Neanderthal man, that extinct first cousin of modern humans, generally described as a dim-witted monster whose long arms dangled forward from stooping shoulders. This is slander, says Dr. William L. Straus Jr. of Johns Hopkins University. Neanderthal man probably stood upright with his limbs in seemly positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Molecules & Men | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Memphis filling station. Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley showed that he can swing his fists as adroitly as his pelvis. Pulling up in his li'l ol' unpretentious white $10,000 Continental Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked for a leak. Fumes were hurting his eyes, like. As the manager complied, a mob of gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Passed and sent to the White House a bill eliminating the 10% amusement tax on admission tickets costing 90? or less. ¶ Passed and sent to the White House a bill for constructing a $37 million merchant ship powered by atomic energy, a favorite dreamboat of President Eisenhower's, designed to demonstrate the peaceful uses of atomic energy. ¶ Passed and sent to the White House a bill providing pay raises from $22,500 to $25,000 a year for Cabinet officers, from $14,800 to $16,000 for top-bracket civil servants, and miscellaneous raises ranging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Other Work Done | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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