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Wilson writes not so much with a pen as with the needle of a tattoo artist who wants to inscribe "no" on Britannia's forehead. In After the Show, a well-illusioned young public-school type tries to be chivalrous toward a tawdry young girl, only to find that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brilliant Gossip | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Ford's "Cellini of chrome" might better be called the Elvis Presley of the automotive industry. His conception of what the buying public wants is insulting, especially to us women. Certainly we are conscious of style, but within the bounds of good taste and good value. Mr. George Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Is the golden glottis gurgling to a stop? Is there a quiver to those rosebud lips, a beginning of wilt to those poodle-wool sideburns? For two years, lovers of peace, quiet and a less epileptic kind of minstrelsy have waited for Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rock Is Solid | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

No Steady Starlets. Elvis, unworried, continues to live off what most parents would agree is the fat of teenagers' heads. As befits a solid citizen (possible 1957 gross: $1 million), he has lately eschewed fistfights and steady starlets, projected a 15-acre Elvis Presley Youth Foundation in Tupelo, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rock Is Solid | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

So far, Seattle's teachers and school officials have taken brainy Bob's service philosophically. "Elvis and learning," says one official, "seem an impossible combination, but I'm for it if it can be done." Adds Bob about his homework kick: "I don't know quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rock 'n' Learn | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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