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...dozen Canadians and a few Norwegians, infants, and grandmothers. But mostly there are middleaged, middle-American women, wearing shorts or double-knit slacks. Their hair is bouffant or stiffly curled. Diane points out the Loews Palace cinema "where Elvis was fired from his first job for fighting another usher over the girl who sold popcorn." There are "ooohs" and "aaahs" mixed with the click-flash-buzz of Polaroids and Instamatics. The bus makes twelve more stops in the hour and a half before reaching Graceland, and all of them have a poignant meaning for the fans. They see the boarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hound Dog Days in Memphis | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...apartment clusters. It is tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that perspective Kittredge and Jacobson, like early aviation nuts who paid for their rickety planes by giving flying lessons or built them on a financial shoestring in barns and attics, can be regarded as American visionaries, gambling on the hope that history will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rhode Island: Rapture of the Shallows | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...asked him if he had any idea of what he would say at Harvard to usher 1600 graduating seniors into the community of educated men and women...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Sunday would appear to be trombone day, as both Trombone Madness and A Trombone Explosion help usher out his jazzy weekend. Madness is at 6 p.m. at Emmanuel Church. Explosion is at Berklee Performance Center...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: We Warrened You | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...think of a more delightful way to usher in spring than with your story on John Travolta [April 3]. He is an electrifying, sumptuous boyman, who exudes a magical aura on-screen that could cause volcanic eruptions. In our part of the world, he has caused disco-dance-contest crazes, polyester-chrome-hair crazes, neon Saturday Night Fever T shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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