Word: presleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Elvis Presley, Joyce Grenfell...
...displaying such gross ignorance of the American scene ("Who is Elvis Presley?"-Sept. 17) Stevenson has disqualified himself for the presidency...
...record business is having its best year since Thomas A. Edison first captured the human voice on a tinfoil-covered cylinder. This week RCA Victor announced its alltime high advance sale for a single pressing-more than 1,000,000 copies of Rock 'n' Roll Hero Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, a surprisingly restrained love ballad that was just released. The Record Industry Association of America estimated that U.S. record sales have jumped 30% over last year's $225 million. The total may approach $300 million with the Christmas rush...
...Abner's simple satire is often lost in this maze, and the frequent barbed references--to Ike, parity, Stevenson, Presley, toothpaste, Kim Novak, Wall St. and war--often overweigh the two long acts...