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Word: autographed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which has a reputation as a quality bookseller with an interest in the literary field, continues to operate in the old tradition; its sales people, for instance, often phone customers to alert them to new books that they might like. Against this, Dalton offers a plethora of autograph parties featuring such guests as Charlton Heston and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and some selective discounting. Like many independents, Carl Kroch, the chain's president, insists there will always be a place for the old, full-price shop. Says he: "You can't provide our kind of services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rambunctious Revival of Books | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Approach #2. The Duke Mantee Autograph Model Paranoid Approach. Recommended for the Shy, the Truly paranoid, and the Easily Disgusted. Prerequisites: A nascent sense of misanthropy or the inability to deal with people whom you are convinced are either out people whom you are convinced are either out to get you or trying to prove their superiority. This famous approach, also suggested for the disdainful, lets you waltz through Freshman Week as an observer. As a non-combatant, you get to watch everyone else have a real "good time" while you stand at the finges, cringing or remaining aloof. Just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Approaches | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...back ten years to an old campaign. He found a crowd of 1,000; some of them had waited for three hours in 90° heat. They wore Nixon campaign buttons; some lugged his 1,120-page memoirs, the size of a small steamer trunk, hoping to get an autograph from the last President they truly and fully liked. "He should get around the country more and speak out," a local Republican committeewoman said with wistful truculence. "Other Presidents have done as bad as he ever did." But a friend of hers was not so sure. "He wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Sightings of the Last New Nixon | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...until she joined TIME's Central Park softball team in 1970 did Phillips get back out on a diamond. This time she stayed. She treated herself to a $60 fielder's glove-"nobody's autograph, a real pro glove"-and she also became a hitter, with a .427 average last season. Reports Phillips: "Last week I hit a home run, a good, honest, hard hit. And I couldn't go to sleep that night, I was so excited. I tingled from the wonderful freedom and joy of connecting with that ball." Ellie McGrath, who wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Golfer Carol Mann is chatting with friends outside the clubhouse when a twelve-year-old girl walks up, politely clears her throat and asks for an autograph. Mann bends down?it's a long way from 6-ft. 3-in. Mann to fan?and talks softly as she writes. After several moments, the girl returns, wide-eyed, to waiting parents. Mann straightens and smiles. "Five years ago, little girls never walked up to tell me that they wanted to be a professional golfer. Now it happens all the time. Things are changing, things are changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comes the Revolution | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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