Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondents to get his "short-snorter" signature. Modestly, and with a smile, he gave it most willingly. Only a few of us got it, though, before his aides brushed us aside and got him back on board. I could place no greater value on any man's autograph than that of General MacArthur...
More than willing to forsake her anonymity, she has nonetheless felt the pain of its loss. People who recognize her in the street and ask for her autograph have always made her uncomfortable. Some of these people wear their hair like Barbra Streisand and display a glassy, communicant look when they see her, for she is a godhead in their most privately inarticulate reveries. Others who stop her are just impious strangers. They see her tasseled yellow blouse showing through under a South American skunk coat, her white wool slacks and dirty sneakers, her induplicable face, and they...
...album-a-year contract with Columbia Records, his quartet could get bookings 52 weeks a year, and his present tour of Europe is almost a sell-out in 20 cities from Helsinki to Milan. In his first fat year, Monk earned $50,000, and on checks as well as autograph books he signs his grand name grandly, like a man drawing a bird...
...play is not the equal of its star. It dwells on the collected anecdotes and cocktail parties of the lecture tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than...
During Tokyo's International Sports Week, a sort of rehearsal for next year's Olympics, autograph hounds be sieged athletes from 34 nations at the highly respectable Dai Ichi Hotel. Many of the proffered "autograph albums," however, displayed not space for signatures but fetching photographs and the invitation: "There's a lovely girl waiting for you outside...