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...major networks resumed their old, over-ballyhooed Sunday-at-8 fray this week with two new opponents: Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, 21, v. Musicomedienne Mary Martin, 43-the two biggest audience-pullers today. Elvis, doing the second of a $50,000 trio of shows for CBS and Ed Sullivan, posed a fancy threat, but Mary, starring in Born Yesterday (Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC), was still TV champion. There were no hard feelings backstage either. "Elvis is jus' darlin','' drawled Texas-born Mary. "Besides, I can't be mad. My mother's name...
...Memphis filling station. Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley showed that he can swing his fists as adroitly as his pelvis. Pulling up in his li'l ol' unpretentious white $10,000 Continental Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked for a leak. Fumes were hurting his eyes, like. As the manager complied, a mob of gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped...
...candid letter to the London Daily Express, which recently ran a music column headed "Is Bing Crosby Going Out -or Has He Gone?," the Old (52) Groaner groaned: "I'm 'long gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that...
...audience (TIME, July 16), the burning question among television's hucksters was: Who had done it, Allen or his guest star, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley? Sullivan, in the unaccustomed position of runner-up, affected disdain for the Pelvis, snorted that he would not have the gyrating groaner "at any price" on his family-type program. "He is not my cup of tea," Sullivan said loftily...
Minstreling through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed...