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Sallie belts them out in the magenta-walled midtown Manhattan convention hall known as the Latin Quarter. In a white gown with red lining, she steps before the gold-spangled curtain and gives a wild-riding reading of Witchcraft, her pelvis bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Topic A | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Sex & Slums. Heart is a gang member's most valued attribute, says Reporter Salisbury, and the coward who "punks out" is likely to be punished by his own gang; the "cheesy," or traitorous, may well be killed. Some gangs sport ladies' auxiliaries, called "debs," who not only supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: The Shook-Up Generation | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

As thigh-slinging Crooner Elvis Presley made his way from Hollywood to the family home near Memphis to wait out his Army summons, Pollster Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced-to no one's surprise-that Pelvis fans, rated against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Still young enough at 33 to play the juvenile, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, no longer a delinquent, tried to explain to New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joe Hyams why he has taken the marbles out of his mouth, untilted his pelvis and abandoned the T-shirt and sneakers as evening dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

The most conspicuous U.S. body manipulator, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, says Birdwhistell, "is most successful with the two-to-four-year-olds, and 12-to-14-year-olds, because he joins them in a particular kind of mockery of serious adulthood. Presley's wiggles seem almost an imitation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Listen to the Body Bird | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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