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said, “I have fifteens
this, you slob, so thee
call. You’re going
I’m the joker who’s!
continued,
Elvis gripped the phone tightly.
The voice went on: “You’re going to die. You won’t know how or when. Just keep your prayers up in front of your head. If they stop me — it won’t matter. I know three guys who’ll do it. One of us will make it. You cost us our women.” Elvis heard a quick click at the other end of the line. He put the phone down slowly.
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From somewhere out in the world a stranger had just tried to drive another nail of fear in the Presley heart. But his would-be murderer might be interested to know that he needn’t have limited himself to fifteen seconds. For Elvis doesn’t even bother to trace the calls any more. There’ve been too many of them in his sevenyear-long reign as “The Greatest Entertainer in the Whole World.”
Guards! Guards! Guards!
Elvis is still alive. But threats to his life go on. For this reason, a few weeks ago, the group of bodyguards assigned to him was increased from six to ten. Two of them are obvious to the public, when Elvis travels or makes personal appearances. But eight of them are “shadows” — inconspicuous, as nearly “invisible” as it is possible for a human to be. One or more of these “shadows” may be standing next to you in the crowd. Or sitting right next to you in an audience. They are never seen talking to Elvis, they never even stand near him. This is to keep them from being
spotted by conspirators who are masters of timetable planning. But the “shadows” are expertly trained in judo and in maneuvering swiftly through crowds.
Two of the “shadows,” Photoplay has been informed, are girls — one eighteen, the other twenty-two — who to all appearances are avid, worshipping Presley devotees. Their closeness to their adored one in public is accepted as “natural.” But their real purpose is to protect Elvis. And two of the male bodyguards maintain vigils even when Elvis is “alone” with a girl! (The techniques of surveillance when Presley is “alone” are secret. And very mysterious.)
Three of the new guards are unknown even to Elvis himself, because otherwise he might unwittingly identify them by a nod of recognition or even the flicker of an eyelid.
A cousin of Elvis, who knows him intimately, told us, “No matter what people say about him, there’s one thing for which I’ll always admire him. Elvis is never afraid, inside or out. There are more men who want to do harm to El than any other en
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