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Elvis: “I Don´t Have Any Business in a Hospital” And, With broken Finger, He Goes Home After Spending One Night Elvis was a little put out by all the attention being showered on his famous little finger. He puffed a pre-breakfast cheroot in his room at “I don´t mind hospitals – this one is really fine – but I don´t have any business here. Things like this happen every day. I´m ready to get out of here.” To prove his point he accommodated a student nurse by signing his autograph with his right hand – the one on which the little finger was broken during a touch football game at Graceland School Sunday afternoon. “Got My Man” “I got my man, too – and he was just a step or two away from a touchdown. I dived for him, see, and after tagging him my hand landed in some mud and buried up in it.” “At first I didn´t notice it – it didn´t hurt me at all – until one of the fellows told me the little finger was bent all the way over the other fingers. “No, it won´t affect my strumming a guitar. I don´t know how long I´ll have to wear the cast – just a few days, I think.” Before breakfast today, Elvis was dressed in gray flannel trousers, blue sports shirt and black suede shoes, ready to leave the hospital. But his doctors were wanting him to stay another 24 hours. A Sore Throat Elvis himself was more concerned about a slight cold and a sore throat he had today. |
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NEVER HAS A LITTLE FINGER attracted so much attention as the one in the cast on Elvis Presley´s right hand. Showing concern are Anita Wood (left), Heidi Heise (right), of 1747 Overton Park, and a group of Elvis´ travelling companions | |||
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“My ice pack melted and the water spilled on me somehow,” he said. “I´m also still groggy from the sodium pentothal they used when they set my finger. It sure knocked me out.” Thruout the night and morning, a steady procession of registered nurses, student nurses and nurses aides – young and old – filed into Elvis´ room to take his temperature, check his pulse, give him a hypo to put him to sleep, ask what he wanted for breakfast – and ask for his autograph |
The hospital posted a guard at the door to keep other visitors out. Elvis, who returned to Memphis last week from Hollywood after completing his latest movie, expects to remain at Graceland two or three weeks. Another Movie ´"I´ve got to go back out there (to California) in about a month for another movie. Don´t ask me what it´s about - I haven´t got the script on it yet. | ||
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"Between now and then, I just want to rest and take it easy - and try out my nre Rolls-Royce. Boy, it´s a honey." Elvis laughed at a report from London that he has ordered a high-priced French Poodle. "First I´ve heard about it. I don´t think I need a poodle." The rock´n´roll king had a hospital breakfast of oat-meal and bananas while he waited for his doctor´s word on whether he could be discharged. He was discharged at 11:30 a.m. Elvis was treated first at Campbell Clinic, where doctors decided to transfer him to the hospital because they didn´t have enough space to accomo-date the anticipated large number of visitors. His touch football teammates and Anita Wood, disk jockey and Elvis´ frequent companion when he is in | ||
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