Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create a lot of attention, particularly among young people," he notes, quietly, "and this hero business does amount to something." It was 30 percent amusing, 30 percent saddening, and 40 percent embarrassing to watch middle-aged adults flocking around a reluctant but obliging "John: and asking him for his autograph "for my son who is going to be an astronaut." (The prize must go to the distinguished foreign professor who handing him the pad, confided gruffly, "Frankly, I don't give a damn...
...Lucianne Cummings, a blonde Washington public-relations consultant, stuffed the letter with a bunch of campaign souvenirs into a closet. Coming across it a few months ago and realizing the value of a letter between a once and a present First Lady, she turned it over to Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton to sell at auction. A year ago, Hamilton had sold a particularly poignant letter from Jackie to an unknown Englishman for a record $3,000; he thought this one would bring at least...
Yards of Copy. Being the best publicist in the autograph business, Hamilton made an appointment to meet the Secret Service men in his office at a specific time, then sent notes to newspapers and magazines all over town to make sure they would be on hand. When the S.S. men showed up, a host of reporters and photographers were waiting for them, having already been fed yards of copy by Hamilton himself. Said he: "I don't like Mrs. Johnson's use of the Secret Service as a go-between. It seems a little Gestapo-ish." Then...
Protected by bodyguards who brushed off newsmen and autograph hunters, the Chinese arrived in Ljubljana four days before the tournament began, set up camp in a schoolhouse twelve miles outside town. They brought their own food, their own cook, even their own sparring partners, trained in the styles of individual opponents-including the "tennis" grip favored by Western players over the older "penholder" grip still used with devastating effect by the Chinese...
...aide and asked if his eyes really closed that much. Assured that they did when he was thinking or talking, the Prime Minister warmed up to the work and smiled his approval. He had but one suggestion. He asked that there be sufficient space for him to autograph the thousands of covers that he expects will descend upon him-which happened, as it does with most subjects, the first time he was on our cover...