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And Life had the great good fortune to be publishing, that very week, their huge, astoundingly vulgar "Entertainment Issue;" it sang of "verse that is both savagely rugged and soaringly lyrical," and used the occasion to add several hundred decibels more to Henry Luce's loud, everlasting orgy of American...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

"Bellyful of Politics." The Mirror also trotted out the life story of Tommy Steele, England's answer to Elvis Presley, and a series on the "oh-so-quickly Rising Generation." Almost entirely missing from the paper was any mention of politics. "When you've just had an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accent on Youth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

It was near midnight in the sleeping Bavarian city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

To its list of "Unbest" Dressed Men, London's Man About Town magazine predictably named two iridescent outlanders -Elvis Presley and Liberace-and not too surprisingly added a member of Britain's Establishment, chronically rumpled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But one nominee was as shocking as plaid socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Holiday in 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...

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

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