Word: dreamboat
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Minstreling through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed...
Scampering aboard a plane in Los Angeles, impulsive Judy Spreckels, 24, ex-wife of Sugar Daddy Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., was soon in Memphis and the offices of the daily Press-Scimitar. She had learned that a photograph, made last month in Las Vegas, showing her with dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("Hi luh-huh-huh-huv-huv yew-hew") Presley, 21, had appeared in the newspaper, and she had hopped to Tennessee to buy some copies of that edition. Was she in luh-huh-huh-huv with Presley (TIME, May 14)? "Oh, no, he's too young," cooed Judy...
...Venezuela goes into its fifth year under Pérez Jiménez, many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
Last week at Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in a flooded drydock. In a year she would be ready for action. The Forrestal's cost, with planes: more than a third of a billion dollars (about $372 million). The Navy has three more supercarriers on order, plans another in the upcoming budget, hopes eventually...
Party-Throwing Elsa Maxwell, arriving in Europe for another summer's social whirl, described "the most wonderful present your reporter ever received." Manhattan Toy Manufacturer Lee Bland, "a dreamboat" so far as Elsa is concerned, had sent her a letter: "This will entitle Elsa Maxwell to have all the balloons and everything else my factories make, whenever she desires...