Elvis Presley

Library checkout card

(Fox News) – Nearly 35 years after his death, a library book checkout card signed
by a teen Elvis Presley will be available at auction.

Elvis was 13 when he checked out a copy of “The Courageous Heart: A Life of
Andrew Jackson for Young Readers” from Humes High School in Memphis,
Tenn., according to the Daily Mail.

The 1948 library card with Elvis’ signature was found by a librarian while discarding
old books,according to the paper.

The current bid for the card, which is being sold with a copy of the book, is $2,600,
and is expected to grow to at least $4,000 when the Heritage Auction closes on
August 14, two days before the 35^th anniversary of the singer’s death.

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PT-109 was a Patrol Torpedo boat commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade John F. 
Kennedy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy’s actions to save his  
crew during the sinking of their boat after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer
off Ghizo Island. made him a war hero and proved helpful in his political career.  

After Kennedy became president, the incident inspired a song,many books, movies,
and various television series, The wreck of PT-109 was discovered in May of 2002
by Robert Ballard, a former U.S.Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at
the University of Rhode Island.

Dr. Robert Ballard
 

 
Scale model of PT-109

1962

       Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

                                   (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)                   

  

    
     Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)

Hemingway was an American author and journalist whose writing style
had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction. He produced most of his
work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story
collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of
short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously
and many of these are considered classics of American literature.

From left: Al Franken and writer Tom Davis

 

    Thomas James "Tom" Davis (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2012)

HUDSON, N.Y.(AP) – Tom Davis, an Emmy Award- winning writer who
with Al Franken helped develop some of the most popular skits in the
early years of "Saturday Night Live," died on Thursday at age 59.

His wife, Mimi Raleigh, said he died of throat and neck cancer at his
home in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City. He was diagnosed
in 2009.