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...moved to Memphis when Elvis was 13. He was fanatically and unabashedly devoted to his mother. He was buried near her after the kind of awful, agonized public wake that attended the passing of Rudolph Valentino and Judy Garland. Eighty thousand fans jammed the street outside his Memphis mansion, Graceland, hoping for a view of the body; 30,000 were admitted to the house. Dozens swooned, cried, keened and passed out from the heat outside the mansion gates. Two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After the funeral at Graceland, a cortege of 16 white...
Then a schmaltzy song that tones things down a little. Elvis begins to slip away from us--ten more years, Elvis? As you play with your model airplanes in Graceland and sip Pepsis, while we're off somewhere, thirty or so? The last few minutes of the program are a rerun of the first few. "I'm Evil" again. You started it, Elvis. The liberator. The martyr to our increased sophistication. Grand old man. He's exactly the same as he was ten years ago, exactly. He started it. We love you, Elvis...
...death has already entered folklore. "I wanted to erase all signs of mourning," he said. Thus death became "leave-taking," a corpse "the loved one," who awaited burial after elaborate cosmetic treatment in a private, well-furnished "slumber" room. Subdivisions of the cemetery have such reposeful names as Lullabyland, Graceland and Babyland (designed in the shape of a heart); soothing music and inspirational messages waft out from loudspeakers hidden in the shrubbery...
Between pictures, Elvis does just about what he wants, usually takes off cross-country with his cronies to Memphis and his 18-room, $1,000,000 hideaway, Graceland. "I withdraw not from my fans but from myself," he drawls. "After work, I just give out." He gives out into a place with jukebox at poolside, a den for his 31 gold (million-seller) single records. There is a private suite for him and another for his grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Presley, 74. He doesn't like to think about Elvis the idol when he's not working. When...
...Keown that the anesthesiologists looked last week as the grand old man of anesthesia for inside-the-heart surgery. What they saw was a crew-cut man of 36, who still looks like the halfback he was in junior college (Graceland, Iowa), only 17 years ago. Appropriately, it was another young giant of anesthesiology, Chicago's Dr. Max Samuel Sadove, 39, who put a capstone on Keown's work. "Ken has shown us the way, and we've followed," said Sadove, who won wide medical acclaim for his work in keeping the Brodie twins alive through many...