Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bret Harte had many admirers and almost no friends. Mark Twain, who respected Harte's work, called the author a coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills...
...coterie of fishing and hunting companions in his home town, as well as numerous publishing friends in New York. He was always given a top table when he dropped in at Toots Shor's or "21" on his frequent visits to New York, graciously gave his autograph when asked, and readily discussed writing with perfect strangers -if they were not newsmen. In 1957 and 1958, he was the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, and in 1962 lectured on writing at West Point. Moreover, perhaps no major U.S. writer ever used his pen so diligently and profitably...
...order dinner for him. Unidentified girls sat on couches and beds and said nothing; they were never introduced. Occasionally one of the Boys would deferentially light a girl's cigarette or send her out to buy dinner. The policeman on duty showed up about every 15 minutes with an autograph seeker. The first time, Dennis's mother quietly reminded him, "Stand up, Denny," and he walked forward to shake hands with a very drunk English teacher attending a convention in the hotel. She wanted his autograph for her two daughters and blubbered fervent thank you's for several minutes while...
...plays Hitler, Billy Frick, is so exact a look-alike that he is afraid to leave the set except mustacheless and in mufti. The porcine, Prussian-looking fellow cast as General von Choltitz worries less, for during the past year he has got as many off-screen hisses as autograph requests. His name is Gert Frobe, but no one remembers him as anything but that malevolent archvillain in his most famed film. Gold finger...
...Hamburg, Germany-on eggs, on a banana, on two Fräuleins' foreheads. In town with his wife Annie on a West German good-will tour, Glenn discovered that the daily Bild-Zeitung was juicing up the visit with a contest. WHO WILL GET THE MOST UNUSUAL GLENN AUTOGRAPH? the newspaper bannered, and all day John signed...