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The increased crop of British correspondents is trying to depart from the cliche reporting of the past, which conjured up a fantasy land of red Indians, vast, untamed distances, beady-eyed Wall Streeters, scofflaw Chicago gunmen, political beasts and, more recently, nutburgers, healthatoriums and two-story doghouses. They also bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Discovering the U.S. | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Don Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: A Handle for Harold | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

New Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met at 75 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

At long last, dreamboat Private Elvis Presley was at sea. But before a military transport could waft him (along with 1,382 other G.I.s) to his truck-driving trick in West Germany, there was time at the dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Before his Moscow triumph, Cliburn was getting fees of $500 to $750 per concert; now he asks $3,500, has made as much as $15,000 for a pair of concerts (in the Hollywood Bowl). This year Van stands to make $125,000 from concerts. TV appearances and recordings. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Van's Big Year | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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