Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaggy crew cut somehow suggesting his long pre-Army locks, Private Elvis Presley struck a nonregulation pose with a favorite off-duty companion, nubile Starlet Anita Wood. For the record, Elvis had the camp P.I.O. issue a denial that he and Anita would marry, then, in a grand finale to his eight weeks of basic training, loped off to the Fort Hood, Texas bivouac area for a hard week of marching and infantry maneuvers-and nights in a pup tent instead of evening passes...
...freedom to play as little or as much as he pleases, and to pick his repertory. But at the same time it has cast him in a unique musical role. "He may be the first man in history," says a friend, "to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one." What some friends worry about is that in the easy flush of success Van might be tempted to keep on repeating himself in the showy, romantic repertory he handles so well, neglecting his powers to develop. Says Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart: "He needs to learn more Beethoven sonatas...
Despite censorship by an overzealous P.I.O., word leaked out of some of hip-flipping Crooner Elvis Presley's activities at Fort Hood, Texas. He has advanced to acting assistant squad leader, donated new furniture to the company recreation hall, and according to a fellow trainee, "when he's free at night he goes to the telephone center and makes calls. On weekends the place is flooded with girls, and they drive him around the post...
...hobble-de-hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when...
...Malcolm Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were...