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...born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated iron roof. Every day he sketched and exercised. Last week, while taking his twice-daily swim, he was seized by a heart attack and died before anyone could reach...
...more backyards for Manry. The Plain Dealer, which was scooped two weeks ago by the rival Cleveland Press about Manry's progress (TIME, Aug. 20), sent a bevy of reporters to serve as his escort. Autograph seekers stopped him on the street. Offers for books and magazine pieces have begun pouring in. Cleveland plans a hero's welcome when he returns home next week, and Ohio's Republican Congressman William Minshall has proposed that Tinkerbelle be placed in the Smithsonian Institution alongside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
...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...