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Where’s Elvis when we need him? On Oct. 28, 1956, the 21-year-old from Tupelo, Mississippi, who’d already recorded “Love Me Tender” and in a matter of weeks would see himself on screen in the movie of the same name, was set to sing “Hound Dog” on the “Ed Sullivan Show.” Before he took the stage, Elvis Presley offered up his right arm and took an injection of Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. The photograph that appeared in newspapers across the country — though Elvis could not rightly be called the King of Rock 'n' Roll at that point, his was a ...