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New National Thomas Kinkade Tour Format Combines Art Events with Select Charitable Causes The Thomas Kinkade Company today announced that Thomas Kinkade, The Painter of Light™ will visit Memphis, Tenn, for a special art event hosted by The Thomas Kinkade Inspiration Art Gallery on Sunday, Nov 14, 2010 at the Esplanade Memphis Banquet & Conference Complex in Cordova, TN. “We are delighted at the opportunity to support St. Jude in their fight against cancer and other deadly diseases” At the event, Mr. Kinkade will draw an original hand sketch that will be featured in a live auction benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ® . Local gallery owners Tommy & Tammy Ashker will also donate a limited edition canvas to St. Jude. “We are delighted at the opportunity to support St. Jude in their fight against cancer and other deadly diseases,” noted Thomas Kinkade. “We applaud their tireless efforts of St Jude as they continue to find cures and save children.” The event also wi...

OOIDA President and CEO Jim Johnston enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1956. He was a boilerman and spent four years stationed on four different ships – two troop ships, an ammunition ship and a survey ship. One of those troop ships was the USS Randall. Aboard the Randall, Jim went from Brooklyn to Germany and back, moving GIs. One of those GIs on the Randall at the same time as Jim was U.S. Army Private Elvis Presley, who sailed for Germany in September 1958. Elvis was serving as part of the 3rd Armored Division. Jim says the trans-Atlantic trip took about 10 days. During that time, Elvis might have tried to be regular soldier, but it wasn’t easy. At 23, Pvt. Presley was probably the most famous man alive. “Everybody was getting their pictures taken with him, getting autographs, but I thought I was too cool for that,” Jim recalls. “But I passed him on the stairs one day and he said ‘good morning.’ And the best I could do was kinda stammer.” “Actually I was impressed with Elvis,” says J...

Nancy Anderson, longtime West Coast editor of mag Photoplay, died Nov. 4 in Bell Buckle, Tenn., of natural causes. She was 92. After working at a number of newspapers around the South, she moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s with her family. She accepted an editor position with Photoplay Magazine and became known around Hollywood, developing friendships with the likes of John Wayne, Walt Disney and Elvis Presley , for whom she used to bake. After retiring from Photoplay, she wrote a weekly entertainment column for Copley News Service. Survivors include two sons and a daughter, 16 great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild and a sister. Donations may be made to Henry's Fund at henrygranju.org.

Knox Phillips, son of the late Sam Phillips, tells the crowd that his dad would have been more proud of his Radio Hall of Fame induction than any other award, because he loved radio so much. Host Neal Boortz looks on. Legendary singer/composer "Cowboy" Jack Clement performs with country artist Robby Fulks as a tribute to Sam Phillips, a 2010 posthumous Radio Hall of Fame inductee. Jerry Phillips, son of the late Sam Phillips, accepts the Radio Hall of Fame award as brother Knox looks on Sam Phillips's sons Jerry and Knox celebrating their father's induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame Saturday night, Nov. 6th, in Chicago. Also honored was Ralph Emery, photographed with country artist Reba McEntire.  

Description: A Hagstrom Viking guitar with tobacco sunburst finish owned by Elvis Presley, serial number 680961.  The guitar, played by both Presley and John Lennon, was purchased by Presley in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.  When The Beatles met Presley at his Bel Air home, he suggested they jam together.  Lennon grabbed this guitar to play while Paul McCartney and Presley played bass.  The jam session lasted two hours, during which Lennon broke a string on the guitar.  Presley gifted the guitar to Don Edwards, a friend who played football with Elvis and the Memphis Mafia.  Presley said he could have the guitar because John Lennon had broken a string and ruined the guitar.  Accompanied by letters of authenticity from Joe Esposito and Don Edwards.  Also present is a DVD with an interview excerpt of Joe Esposito holding this guitar and discussing its use during the meeting between The Beatles and Presley. Estimate: $ 100,000 - $ 150,000 Start...