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I can’t tell exactly, @meanmistermustard, but given the actual picture (thanks for including that as it goes to my reading…) I would suggest:

“Come hither type look” those I’m certain of, followed by possibly/probably “Elvis”, while I can’t make out the last word at all, I would imagine it is something like “style” or “based”, something with that kind of meaning.

Reasoning? I’ve seen that picture referenced as being an early example of John’s “Come hither type look” and that it was a look John modelled on Elvis, and so I think that’s what the writing on the back of the photo is about.

Silly Girl said
Was John ever vegetarian? I know the other three were/are, but I never heard about John. 

I think it was mentioned here before that John was the only Beatle that never went vegetarian.

I hate to disagree with @AppleScruffJunior, @Beatlebug, but John was certainly mainly vegetarian from around 1967 and throughout much of the ’70s, although he would go through periods of eating meat, and was probably eating meat during 1980.

I’m not sure of exactly when this quote is from, but John said on the subject:

I don’t think animals were meant to be eaten and worn. We have enough resources to do without them. It’s common sense to me that you shouldn’t eat most of the chemically treated rubbish most people seem to stuff themselves with. The trouble is most vegetarians don’t get enough protein. My diet’s based on meal, bread which Yoko makes, rice and no sugar. We have honey if things need sweetening.

In Pete Shotton’s book, In My Life , he comments that whenever visiting John at Weybridge from around 1967, he’d be offered  vegetarian burgers and sausages.

As I said though, he’d go back to meat at various times. May Pang commented that during her time with him he loved her “full English” breakfast, which would have included meat.

When not strictly vegetarian, he was often macrobiotic, which allows fish.

When asked about their diet during the 1980 Playboy interview, they replied:

John: We’re mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Yoko: Intuition tells you what to eat. It’s dangerous to try to unify things. Everybody has different needs. We went through vegetarianism and macrobiotic, but now, because we’re in the studio, we do eat some junk food. We’re trying to stick to macrobiotic: fish and rice, whole grains. You balance foods and eat foods indigenous to the area. Corn is the grain from this area.