Poetic Obituaries: [Rev. Robert] Shields told [Michael] Feldman

he wrote the base story for Elvis Presley's first movie, "Love Me Tender," although he did not write the screenplay.

He was also a ghost writer and poet. He wrote 1,200 poems, and "at least five of them were good," he told Feldman.

He then launched into a recitation of a ribald poem about Helen of Troy.

from Walla Walla Union-Bulletin: Dayton man, famous for diary, remembered

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