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There's nothing surf about Dennis Wilson or the other Beach Boys any more; somehow, they've turned straight. All the bleach is gone from their hair, and they wear surfer clothes--tight white levis, striped sports shirts, and blue tennis shoes--only at their concerts. Relaxing in their suite at the Sheraton Boston after Friday night's performance at the Garden, they looked like what we at Hawthorne High used to think of as rich kids--the ones from Beverly Hills who drove Peugeots and Porsches to little coffee houses on Sunset Boulevard after football games. We drove...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Surf's Out for the Beach Boys | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

...brief undies lounging on a bed and chatting (soundlessly) with a male companion in shorts. In the foreground, Edie and her companions frugged, jerked and twisted beneath hot studio lights. Edie was dressed in her "uniform," a pair of leotard mesh stockings topped by tight black panties, a blue surfer's shirt, and huge earrings that hung down to her collarbone. The rest of the Warhol entourage included Chuck Wein, Harvard '60, who peroxides his hair and wears it long, and Don Lyons, another Harvard man, who is a teaching fellow in Greek classics, wears his hair short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Edie & Andy | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...forth to make it a contest. But Eastern addicts are still getting their surf legs and seem quite content with the three-and four-footers found along most of the coast. A few weekends ago, when the rollers at Narragansett rose to California size (six feet), not a surfer braved the waves. Explained one neophyte: "If you don't know what you're doing, six-footers can be suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing: Go East, Golden Boy | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...Taylor has seen no sign that surfer's knobs predispose to cancer or other serious disease, and there is one case that he has studied closely and anxiously for six years-that of his own 19-year-old son. With Dr. Walter R. Nickel he has been collecting specimens of knobby tissue for microscopic study by offering surfers $15 for a blob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: The Knee & the Board | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Though doctors generally see no cause for alarm about serious permanent damage from surfer's knobs, California draft boards are becoming deeply concerned. The typical knob on the top of the foot makes it impossible for a surfer to wear high-cut G.I. shoes. The beachniks are beating the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: The Knee & the Board | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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