Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Lady, spent three days at the family's Hyde Park home and read more than two dozen books on her subject. "I wish that a great deal of her graciousness and loveliness would rub off on me," says Eileen. Something has. "I recently gave an autograph," she recalls, "and, my God, I signed 'Elea' before I realized what I was doing...
Foster had to adjust to another part of baseball, the multitude of fans and autograph seekers. "We have to try to set the best examples. Kids idolize us. We have to show that we're doing things we want to do. But the main thing is to maintain health and strength. We have a great chance of repeating...
...promotion road, it is mandatory madness. The latest issue of the American Booksellers Association Newsletter lists dozens of authors who are currently hopping-or dragging -from city to city to hustle their books. The stops include talk shows, newspaper interviews, luncheons and appearances in department stores to autograph hundreds of copies. "You find out just how many ways there are to spell Arlene," says Christopher Porterfield, co-author with Dick Cavett of Cavett...
...into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack of his books awaited him at other stops. Only later did Maas learn that it was the same stack of books that his publishers kept shipping one step ahead...
Sort of funny, kind of sad, Salut I'Artiste is a halfway exercise in depicting the addled, smoothly desperate life of an actor named Nicholas. His face, in passing, is familiar, but ask for his autograph and the name will not register. Nicholas makes his living doing day work in movies, character bits in commercials and specialty acts at small clubs. It is a hard scuffle, but Nicholas dotes on the comfortable insecurity of the life. At least it offers a neat opportunity to fend off deeper involvement with his mistress Peggy (Françoise Fabian) and keeps...