Word: tupelo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLAYTON STEPHENS, D.V.M. Tupelo, Miss...
...Steady Starlets. Elvis, unworried, continues to live off what most parents would agree is the fat of teenagers' heads. As befits a solid citizen (possible 1957 gross: $1 million), he has lately eschewed fistfights and steady starlets, projected a 15-acre Elvis Presley Youth Foundation in Tupelo, Miss., his birthplace...
Heavy Beat. The perpetrator of all this hoopla was born in Tupelo, Miss, (pop. 11,527). His parents gave him a guitar before he was twelve. "I beat on it for a year or two," he drawls. "Never did learn much about it." He learned to sing church hymns with a heavy beat, as Negro revival singers do, but gave no thought to a musical career. A couple of years ago, Presley, working as a truck driver, was seized with the urge to hear his own voice, took his guitar with him and made a recording in a public studio...
...chaplain was Lieut. Colonel Warren E. Ferguson, 38, a veteran of the Normandy and northern France campaigns who holds the Silver Star and Purple Heart, and a Southern Baptist who did his prewar preaching in Tupelo, Miss...
Today is not only Tree Day; what's more important, it's the biggest regatta day of the year. Chaos breaks loose at about 4 p.m. when the four class crews take their marks at Tupelo Point. They are judged individually on form, next on the racing start, and then on actually winning the race...