Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long one of TV's remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old daughter had pledged her allegiance : "After the campaign, we asked her who she was for, and she said, 'Gold-wah-wah.' " On college campuses, where Goldwater buttons and sprouting Goldwater clubs symbolize a bold challenge to liberal orthodoxy, he is an authentic hero; Young Americans for Freedom...
...warmth of the crowds that greeted him was enough to lure almost anyone back to politics. He had to fight his way past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper in Des Moines, 10,000 at a Detroit fund-raising rally, 1,100 at a $100-a-plate dinner in Columbus, where Young Republicans toasted him with a convention-style "demonstration," complete with victory banners such as "We'll do more...
...Emperor leads a busy if sheltered life, studying and signing 2,500 laws and documents a year, attending 50 or more public functions on the palace grounds. He still keeps a properly royal reserve. At one affair, he was startled when a brash U.S. Congressman wanted him to autograph a 100-yen bill; he refused. A fussily frugal man who goes around turning out unneeded lights, Hirohito is fond of wandering in old clothes about the grounds with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real passion...
...sent her "100,000 kisses, all of which are to be cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria's crown, a giant's autograph, or something equally fantastic which would mean putting on my armor at once and setting out for the Orient?" Into such hyperbolic reveries crept the unaffected but affecting confession: "I was in love with none and am now with one." He was absurdly jealous and the two had their tiffs...