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280 “He was hurt”: Ibid.
280 “I assure you”: Elisabeth Mansfield, quoting Elvis Presley in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
280 “I can be there in one week”: Elisabeth Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
281 “We hit it off”: Ibid.
281 “he was going to see on a regular basis”: “Elvis and Elisabeth,” by Bob Graham, The [London] Sunday Times Magazine, August 3, 1997.
281 “He was the man I adored”: Elisabeth Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
281 “There would be at least a couple of girls each week”: “Elvis and Elisabeth,” by Bob Graham, The [London] Sunday Times Magazine, August 3, 1997.
282 “mostly when he would say harsh things”: Elisabeth Mansfield, “Rex and Elisabeth Mansfield,” by Piers Beagley, on the Web site Elvis Information Network, August 2002.
282 “I said, ‘Elvis’ ”: Ibid.
282 “Elvis . . . had”: Rex Mansfield, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 65.
282 “above normal capability”: Look magazine, “Elvis and the Frauleins,” December 23, 1958.
283 “It like to drove her crazy”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
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285 “a bitch and a half”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
285 “gold comes out of his hot throat”: Look magazine, “Elvis and the Frauleins,” December 23, 1958.
286 “Get away from me”: Elisabeth Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
286 “Truck drivers”: Rex Mansfield quoting Elvis Presley, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
286 “After taking my first pill”: Rex Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
287 “Beautiful girls”: Elisabeth Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
287 “he just let loose sexually”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
287 “Sometimes”: Rex Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
287 “I don’t know”: George Klein, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
287 “Who in the hell”: George Klein, quoting Elvis Presley in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
287 “That December, she came to Germany”: Jane Wilbanks, who met him at the “Elvis Train,” as the girls called it, visited Elvis at his hotel for the holidays, and was his Christmas Eve date in 1958. Having just lost his mother in August, “He was sad and cried a lot, and I didn’t know what to say,” she told an Associated Press reporter in 2002. In January 1959, she gave him a royal blue velvet robe for his birthday. A teen beauty queen, Jane dated Elvis for about ten months in Germany, and also a few times when they returned to the States. “It was kind of Cinderella-ish,” she said. “I think he liked talking with me because most of the time he had all these Hollywood starlets around. Of course, I was from New Albany [Mississippi], which was only about thirty miles from Tupelo.”
287 “instantly jealous”: Elisabeth Mansfield, in Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe, Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
288 “They had handwritten notes”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
288 “somehow they were missing”: Vera Tschechowa, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 69.
288 “We took these horrible pictures”: Vera Tschechowa, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 69, and in Schroer, Andreas, Private Presley.