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...Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock 'n' roll, to fade. But knowledgeable disk jockeys and trade bulletins offer such purists little hope. In spite of previously noted tremors, last week rock 'n' roll looked solid as Gibraltar, and Elvis-with a new stomp-and-holler hit, Jailhouse Rock (RCA Victor)- was perched right...

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

Mary Stuart offers no end of bravura and brag, of stomp and stealth, as the play rushes from one emotional exclamation point to another. Since the characters never really draw human breath, they never provide the thrills born of real concern. Mary Stuart has clang without resonance, but it is old-fashioned enough to seem novel, and good enough of its kind to be enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to stomp and holler their approval of Britain's latest musical mania: U.S. rock 'n' roll, commercial hillbilly and folk music, warmed over and juiced up in a mishmash called skiffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Git-Gat Skiffle | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Great (Bethlehem). Ten selections by one of the most durable of contemporary trombonists, accompanied by such seasoned players as Edmond Hall on the clarinet and Jo Jones on the drums. Among the selections: a sultry Bad Acting Woman, followed but not improved by an adenoidal Teagarden vocal, King Porter Stomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Jazz Records | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...state's two U.S. Senate races, he lost two quick falls to Senator Earle Clements and former Governor Lawrence Wetherby. Last week, in the latest round of Kentucky's Democratic wrestle, fast-moving "Happy" Chandler pinned both Clements and Wetherby to the mat and then began to stomp around the ring, waving and mugging at the crowd like a new champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Happy's Days Are Here Again | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

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