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Breaking attendance records at a Times Square nightclub in an act that features nine musclemen in loincloths, Mae West, 61, pronounced herself in "puffect" health: "I keep myself in puffect shape. I get lots of exercise-in my own way-and I walk every day . . . Knolls, you know, small knolls, they're very good for walking. Build up your muscles, going up and down the knolls . . . [My] teeth are so puffect that everybody thinks they're false. Do you know why they're puffect? 'Cause I take care of them. I brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Then the entertainment began, swinging from rowdy boogies to fervent waltzes, all in praise of the Lord. First was the Gospel Melody Quartet, then the Harmoneers, featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prayers & Popcorn | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Sentimental Journey. In Pasadena, Calif., suing each other for divorce, Grover T. Kelley and wife Daisy Mae disagreed on 1) the date of their marriage, 2) the place of their marriage, 3) the date of their separation, 4) the year and make of their automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Mae West, 61, a latter-day blonde with original curves, made her night-club debut in the Sahara, a Las Vegas saloon, and proved that "my brand of sex" is still a basic barroom commodity. Mae's brand consisted of herself and "the first barechest act for lady customers in history"-eight muscle-bound young men in loin-cloutish Bikinis, one of them the current "Mr. America," the rest onetime contenders for the title. All in all, Mae's troupe proved invigorating even for jaded

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Vegas; reservations for her show were running ahead of the records set by such semidraped past performers as Marlene Dietrich and Terry Moore. Never breathless except when stirred by her own emotions, Mae explained why she is still in tiptop shape: "I walked five miles a day with two men for three months before coming up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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