Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fence between his face and the world. Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public. Decked out in a false nose, mustache and beard, Floyd certainly doesn't look like Floyd. Autograph hunters keep thinking he's Thelonious Monk...
...late President Kennedy's is the most sought-after autograph today-the more so because so many of his signed letters were not really signed. As President, Kennedy authorized certain secretaries to imitate his signature, and used mechanical robots to trace his name. Highest-priced J.F.K. item so far is the letter he wrote a friend from boarding school at the age of 15, signed "Smuttily yours, Jack Kennedy," which was sold to Movie Producer David L. Wolper two months...
...living person's autograph the highest price ever paid was rung up in an auction last year for a four-page letter from Jacqueline Kennedy, written when her husband was a Senator, in reply to a begging letter from an Englishman. Auctioneers had estimated that the letter would bring no more than $250, but a Boston lawyer paid...
...whole affair was a heady experience for the American comic-strip writers, who have long taken for granted that they are part of the American subculture. Said Al Capp: "At home, nobody has ever asked me for an autograph for himself. It's always for a demented brother who reads my junk, or his idiot nephew. Writers don't take you seriously because you draw. Artists don't take you seriously because you write. Now we come to Europe to find out that it's deep stuff, and if I stay around these guys much longer...
From Schism to Schism. Near conference's end, Barry Goldwater showed up looking tanned and fit, surrounded by autograph seekers and well-wishers. In his speech, Goldwater declared: "Enough time has gone by to know that it was image that decided the election. Your candidate, and that was me in case you forgot it, was saddled with two images: that I would risk war too easily and that I would destroy the social security system. They were in fact the biggest political lies ever told in this country." He urged that the "stupidity" of the party...