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IS Germany's Ludwig Beethoven the answer to Memphis' "Menace," Elvis Presley? For two enlightened Yalemen's answer to this epic question, see EDUCATION, Combat the Menace!
The placard on the counter of the Manhattan music store of Carl Fischer, Inc. was modest enough in size, but the slogan it bore was a call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller...
The National I Like Ludwig Club began only four weeks ago when two Yale-men, Edmund Leites, 17, of Manhattan, and Howard Richards, 18, of Redlands, Calif., became alarmed at the number of "I Like Elvis" buttons they saw while in Manhattan on holiday. The boys went into a huddle...
Donegan's coals-to-Newcastle versions of U.S. folk songs skiffled squeals out of the teenagers, but, according to a Raleigh, N.C. diagnostician, their yelping "has a spasmodic quality compared to the sustained ecstasy Elvis seems to inspire."
Be that as it may, Elvis Presley's records were reported to be the nonsocialist-realist craze in Leningrad and elsewhere. Disks, bootlegged from U.S. records and cut on discarded hospital X-ray plates, sell for 50 rubles ($12.50).