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...camera, Natalie became a well publicized Hollywood playgirl. She had a large fling with Nicky Hilton, after Liz Taylor divorced him. She danced and dallied with Jimmy Dean, was often observed on the jump seat of Elvis Presley's motorcycle, and married Wagner in a ceremony that was decorous enough to make some pressagents think it was for real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Up from Happyland | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...Sullivan once declared: "I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." Edison's invention has so profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the day-Elvis Presley-to build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison Foundation has issued on one LP a sampling of some of Edison's earliest recordings. They should convince any listener that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Terrifying Invention | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Wild in the Country (20th Century-Fox) casts Elvis Presley, the well-to-do Memphis meadowlark, as a farm boy who fears he bears the mark of Cain because he clonked his brother with a milking stool. The parole board takes the broad view, however, and soon Elvis is out haylofting with two chicks, brown-haired Millie Perkins, a long way from The Diary of Anne Frank, and Tuesday Weld, a 17-year-old who is going to look a great deal like Saturday night before she is 20. Afternoons he spends with Hope Lange, a widowed psychologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memphis Meadowlark | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...laid ten fingers down on a blasting Bachian chord-and lost it. At Vic Tanny's, dozens of reducers stared in blubbery relief as the complicated electrical contraptions halted their pummeling. At the Paramount Theater, where the projectors run on DC current but the sound on AC, Elvis Presley was silenced at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Last Switch | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...comes frenzy. Quinn's Tahitian Hut swarms with people eager for entertainment after a hard day at the beach. The favorite dances, the otea and the tamure, are frankly erotic, but with all the hip quaking and knee knocking, much more innocent and enjoyable to watch than Elvis Presley. When Quinn's closes, the natives and travelers move on with their guitars and their cases of Hinano (the local beer) to other places-often in the middle of the road-to continue their happy partying. After that, there is always the possibility that everybody will want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Beyond the Horizon | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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