Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors on NBC's Days of Our Lives, Susan Seaforth Hayes and her husband Bill, for lunch at a Hollywood restaurant. "A well-known movie star was seated across from us," Janos recalls. "Within 15 minutes of our arrival, the Hayes' were besieged by autograph seekers. I watched the movie actor's face. At first he was simply puzzled, then he was piqued. Finally he became incensed. No one had paid him any attention, and I could tell he had no idea who was signing all those autographs. Bill Hayes just smiled and said: 'Happens...
...opera. Eileen Fulton, who has played the wicked Lisa on As the World Turns for 16 years, was punched in front of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor by an irate fellow shopper who had confused the TV screen with real life. Said Fulton: "At first I thought she wanted my autograph...
Says Mary Benjamin, a noted autograph scholar and dealer: "The field is governed in great part by emotion, the feelings that collectors have toward the individuals who have written."Nonetheless, villains too have autograph appeal. Papers signed by John Wilkes Booth sell for around $1,000, ten times as much as writings by his gifted brother Edwin Booth. Benedict Arnold's three-page will sold for $2,800. Two known letters from Jesse James are worth between $5,000 and $10,000. Documents of Nazi leaders command high prices. Producer David Wolper, a collector of note, has a Christmas...
While historic documents continue to be found occasionally in attics or old trunks, the supply of valuable autographs is drying up. In the age of the telephone, few people write personal letters. Even great men have their papers typed and signed by autopen. This is a distressing prospect for historians as well as dealers. The time may come when autograph collectors are reduced to bidding on presidential tapes, expletives deleted...
These lamppost vigilants, silent and deferential, were not teeny-boppers eager to squeal or fans looking for a fast autograph. As much as anything, they were all unofficial delegates of a generation acting on the truth of Springsteen's line from Thunder Road: "Show a little faith, there's magic in the night." Just at that doorstep, they found it. Growin...