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...Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow a mustache...
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...Reader Lam is right. The Associated Press, whose picture and caption TIME used, issued a correction later...
Next morning Magistrate Clyde Wilson droned impatiently through his work -five prostitutes, two drunks, three alleged sex offenders, etc. But no Nina. Convinced that the accused had taken it on the lam, Magistrate Wilson issued a warrant for her arrest. With belated efficiency, police staked out the Soviet embassy, but by then there was reason to believe that their girl had tried a non-Olympic event, the running pierhead jump, and was safely on a Russian freighter heading for home...
Fresh out of appeals on his five-year prison sentence (plus a $20,000 fine) for evading $28,532 in 1948-49 income taxes, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 64, took a legal gamble, croaked an offer to lam for his native Italy, if the federals would take the heat off him. The Government's answer: quit stalling and get off to the penitentiary...