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Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...silk embroidered cowboy shirt and a black imported dog reflect the deep thinking of automotive stylists, we can readily understand why the results seen on the American road are as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...beaver pelt, once the currency of a frontier, has had a treacherous history. In the 1840s the fashion for men's beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mamie & the Fur Trade | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...there were top trade-union leaders who used the funds for phony real estate deals in which the victims of the fraud were their own members. And we didn't know that there were trade-union leaders who charged to the union treasury such items as speedboats, perfume, silk stockings, brassières, color TV, refrigerators, and everything else under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Shocking Thing | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...next night, in the patio of Tangier's casbah, a lissome girl in a shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOSLEM WORLD: Beyond the Veil | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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