Word: dreamboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teen-age followers to happy frenzy. Fortnight ago, the acknowledged "King of Rock 'n' Roll" rolled into Boston and set up shop in its 7,200-seat Arena. Almost 5,000 hip kids poured in the Arena to catch his 17 acts, including four bands, and starring Dreamboat Groaner Jerry Lee Lewis...
...clear Eisenhower go-slow line involved considerable political risk. In standing against tax cuts, in heading off dreamboat public-works projects that he thought would ultimately contribute to inflation, Ike was staking the Republican reputation in an election year on his basic faith in the U.S. economy. If he was right, the recession would some day be forgotten, and the pundits would turn happily to the next crisis. If he was wrong, the Democrats would never let the nation forget that they were its true heroes...
Scheduled to get a shearing as a draftee, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley jumped the clippers by getting a "normal" haircut that shortened his sideburns a good inch, left him still looking much too dreamy for the Army...
...Dreamboat Squealer Elvis Presley, 22, got a 60-day draft deferment in order to complete a movie (TIME, Dec. 30), prepared for his farewell to soft civilian life by donating a trunkful of his cuddly stuffed Teddy bears, plus two black and white toy pandas and a fake koala, to the March of Dimes for auctioning later this month...
...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...