Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen...
...worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...Harold Jenkins!" says Seat now, with reminiscent horror. "What can you do with a handle like that? God knows, my middle name, Sanford, is bad enough. But Harold Jenkins!" Then it turned out that hazel-eyed Harold twanged a neat country guitar and his voice could bounce from flat rock 'n' roll to a high-pitched sexy whisper. There was only one thing, Don decided-that name had to go. "I thought of Twitty. I tried Johnny Twitty, Freddie Twitty, but it just didn't work. Then we got to talking about towns in Arkansas...
...Ferry. Still, Harold was willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...
...Bury Yourself." Fortnight ago, Johnny Pierce called on a friend, Chiropractor Harold D. Harrington, and told him that he had spilled cobalt 60 on his hands. Harrington told him to go straight to the hospital for a check. Instead, Johnny called on a pre-med student for advice. Says Classmate Douglas Thornton: "I thought he was kidding. I said: 'Bury yourself.' " The two went to a motel, where Johnny took a brisk shower. Hospital officials later found Johnny in a drugstore, called in AEC and U.S. Public Health Service officials...