Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his new penchant for self-deprecation, Nixon recalled how a young girl had stopped him on the street in New York and enthusiastically asked him to autograph his picture. "That's a wonderful picture, Mr. Nixon," the jumping teeny-bopper gushed. "It doesn't look like you at all." Asked to describe the "new" Nixon, he fingered his receding hairline and allowed: "Well, the new Nixon is older, to begin with. Perhaps he has acquired, I should hope, some more wisdom...
Died. Stanley Berman, 41, Brooklyn cab driver and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate-Crasher"; of a blood infection; in Brooklyn. No occasion was too exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers...
...debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment." Hull rarely does-whether it means visiting a Chicago hospital to say hello to ailing Black Hawks fans or hanging around the arena until the last autograph is signed. Last month in Toronto, he shook hands and signed autographs for a full 50 minutes. A Toronto lawyer recalls arriving at that city's airport at 5 a.m. to find the Black Hawks dozing in chairs while they waited for a delayed flight home. "I was with...
...asked five of America's leading autograph experts, all experienced dealers, to examine the facsimile, and they unanimously agreed that the handwriting was not that of James Joyce. Imagine! At the very time when Joyce allegedly set down these puerile meanderings, he was already at work on Ulysses...
...women, who had bought $100 box seats to a U.N. Concert at Constitution Hall, were denied admission by federal agents Saturday night, The Washington Post reported. The reason: they had brought with them an anti-war cartoon--embracing men of many nations--which they wanted cellist Pablo Casals to autograph, one of them said. The problem: their box adjoined that of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. And the dove cartoon was interpreted as a possible threat by Rusk's protectors...