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...came on next and since he knew he couldn't follow that said Boy, ain't that O.B. something. I never I'd live to see the day. They're ganging up on us, him and Charlie Pride. I never thought I'd see a nigger imitatin' Elvis Presley. And then Donna Fargo who'd almost been forgotten, came out and sang well enough. A very fat girl and a very thin girl had been waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend down to give them...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Cookin' It Up Country | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

...Divorced. Elvis Presley, 38, rock V roll's Golden Oldy supercrooner; and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu Presley, 25, a stunning brunette from Memphis who met and conquered Elvis in Germany when he was the most famous sergeant in the U.S. Army; after six years and one child; in Santa Monica. In addition to a cool $1.5 million, Elvis also gave Priscilla a 5% interest in his music companies and half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. -Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1973 | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...among the four thousand blades of brown grass, each painted separately in egg tempera? In fact, no: a dark, secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into the fields when the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fact as Poetry | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

When they met, Elvis was 25, a sergeant stationed in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and she was 14, the daughter of an Air Force captain. Now, at 28, the former Mrs. Presley, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 30, 1973 | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

IVAN ARRIVES in Kingston and is immediately ripped off when he finds that in the big city even getting directions cost money. "You think town is easy," cautions a relative Ivan finds in town. "I can sing," he replies, the young Elvis Presley waiting for his inevitable break. Ivan gets the name of a churchman who is to give him a job, and begins his move through a series of rackets...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: The Harder They Come | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

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