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Elvi B a le i Exactly one day 1 Elvis Presley, tertainment Editor in Memphis on pers views on Elvis we more interesting received of the reac the City of Memphi By BARRY GLENN Gamecock Staff Write Memphis, Tennesse< doesn't really get on y< Like Columbia, Memp atmosphere. It offers medical center, the M until three weeks ago where Martin Luther ago. The big claim to I now, though, is being Presley. A trip to Memphis d the senses, but it was r arrived on a Monday the only excitement in convention, and Elvis, that Elvis was really than just staying an People in Memphis wei Elvis. Few people a tneir first names ale Especially in Memphi: I decided to ride by and see the glory sum not to be found. EIvl/ Presley Boulevard. T 300 yards from the stre< iron gates. Around his American street, a non church is on one side, i the other. A combi grocery store is across I slightly run down. "Wh a peasants' neighborhc Some people would te Elvis remembered his boy from Tupelo, Miss Elvis was on constant t m is left gacy before the death of to move Assistant En- deteriorat Barry J. Glenn was Elvis didi onal business. His mansion, re interesting, but As P4 is the view he mans,?p.J tion to the death by is itself. a1h'.T, televisionHospital. ' ^ me news m ;r Memphi e is a large city, but Graceland jut nerves like most, people sto this has a small town thousands, a university, a huge to come s ississippi River, and, them ever; , Elvis. Memphis is the focus King died nine years nesday, fh fame, Memphis holds cars kept t ; the home of Elvis shops ran < was displt loesn't exactly excite read, "In lecessary so I went. I 1977". At afternoon and found town, a sig town was a Shriner's you Elvis" , That is not to say doing anything other Televisic sund his mansion. reports cat re proua to talk about where re an be recognized by people. 0 >ne. Elvis could. commercit s. forests acc announcer the King's mansion Presley .Th funding him. It was words--"Sl< mansion is on^lvis he mansion is about The body et and surrounded by 60,000 of th< palace was a typical They staye rial neighborhood. A a shopping center on The towr nation gas station- mansion W the road. The area is It seemed y might a king live in for a rnan n kkI," I wondered. And then ill you it was because Memphis v. roots-he was a poor radio. List< issippi. Others said I realized t urmoil over whether was gone. 1 hpmiICO the nninkk 1 1 uiv ucigllUUl UOOU was ing. Most agreed, however, that l't want to leave his Graceland ft jered through the gates at the B [ wondered about the stories of an I it, sick Elvis, addicted to drugs, B dered if he really were still king. it day the bulletin appeared on -Elvis had been taken to Baptist I Then the live action reporter gave I /ith such finality--"Elvis is dead." I s fell apart. People stormed to . Where just the day before few od at the gate. Now hundreds, , waited possibly expecting Elvis trolling down the lane and tell ything was fine. The city became of national attention. On Wedigs were flown at half mast and heir headlights on all day.Record out of Elvis records. A billboard ?yed opposite the mansion. It Memoriam, Elvis Presley, 1935a Wendy's Hambureers armss n was up -"'Our thoughts are with B -as if the star were still alive. |g| ?n went overboard. Constant live fi me from the Graceland mansion B porters interviewed sobbing B ne station featured a 30-second Bg il showing sunsets and beautiful B ompanied by organ music. The Bjj kept extolling the virtues of Elvis fl en at the end of the tribute, these H jep warm Elvis." B then went on view to the public. ' 1 j 80,000 waiting fans never got in. < d outside fainting or weeping. i was crazy. Cars filed by the t ednesday for no apparent reason. < too much for these people to care 1 lost of them had never met. t it hit me. I was driving through 1 'hen an Elvis song came on the 1 ening to the emotion in his voice, hat the true king of rock n' roll c Vo more gyrating hips or curling t - I ariai but b By DIANA DARGITZ Gamecock Staff Writer For sheer escape "Shanna," by Kathl .Wnn/li-!'"' J * IKuuuiwias pruviues IB adventure as well as a gre, lx)redom for the reader, "the blazing novel of etern it would have been m propriately labeled the novel of eternal lust. Shanna, the only chilc wealthy widower Orlan Tr the island of Los Camell neys to I/mdon to spend a search of a husband. SI rich, beautiful and despei need of a husband prominent name among society. If Shanna fails t suitable husband she mus to Los Camellos and lips. Music had lost a friend, but Amei culture had lost one of its founders. Elvis had changed this country's sty ioing things. He may have even invc he generation gap. Elvis survived constant puritanical ravings made agi lim. He survived the Beatles, the St< he tours and the challenges against his is king of rock n' roll. The day he die lad a single in Variety magazine's top f Elvis clearly lived on. Wednesday night I joined the lonn li? ? o --:ars creeping past the masion to ribute. Rather than file by his coffin ina' is li oring n whomever Orlan Traheri for her. vaiue She finds her man air p London jail condemned to irv murder. She manages t( it dofil nf out and to the a,tar ,on8 ( i take his name. She becoi al love", Ruark Beauchamp. tore ap- The novel takes the blazing through repetitious se: counters between Kuark life was spared to become 1 of the servant as Trahern's ovc ahern of Ix>s Camellos, and Sham os, jour- loves the pleasures tha i year in provides, but refuses to r< lanna is fact that she has niarrie ately in beneath herself. with a Murder, piracy and o Iiondon derhanded dealings are s o find a throughout the 661 pages t return sense in an attempt to a* marry substance to the novel. BHWUBBB lean pay respects, mourn cars past his home in i ie of Elvis was buried Th nted now come for years the and where he is buri< linst never believe stories I >nes, continuously barbec role remember the El d he American lifestyle ifty. teenage diversion. At a Memphis cont le of this-"Without a song pay So I guess I'll keep or and did keep on singing. usty, ovel i chooses real meal of the fantasy it pr< ight--in a females who si hang for stinctive desire > get him nia'e. W OOl ;nough to 8?!d mine rigl mes Mrs. psyche. As sh< hnr rpnHprc ncm fantasy where tl reader and handsome, cual en- gets everything whose Since Woodiwi a bonded want "Shanna" rseer on hedonistic, it tui la. She is an affluent c t Ruark Shanna to his \ iveal the much to the d so far lYahern. Just lived-happily-evt ther un- off, Woodiwiss cattered bear twins. Tl of non- prising consider id some exchange of se But the ween Huark anc ere now drove theirs a show of homage. ursday and people will < to see where he lived sd. His true fans will that said he was fat or I out. They will Ivis, who changed while serving as a :ert in 1971 Elvis said the world would fall. i singing a song." He And we're thankful. ? > novel is the sexual i !>vides for those till harbor the into be possessed by rtiwiss has found a it in the female > d becomes richer, ape into a world of leir lovers are rich ' and the heroine j she wants, iss probably didn't to be too terribly ns out that Ruark olnninl anH tnW Virginia plantation delight of Orlan to top this "theyer-after" fairy tale allows Shanna to lat's not too sur- ; ing the continual xual passion bet i Shanna Ugh. , ' A