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...President of the Board of Trade, who is regarded as the Cripps of any future Tory government. He ably and dully defended Britain's steel industry which Labor wants to nationalize. He also showed one of the conference's rare flashes of humor. When a girl autograph hunter asked him to record three wishes, he wrote: "A new suit, a new government...
...basic nature of American, League play also seems to be the factor that draws small boys of the autograph-seeking variety and the hordes of casual spectators who pick a team for purposes of cocktail party conversation and that exhilirating sense of being one with the mass...
...accepts as part of the job the autograph seekers who accost him in hotel lobbies and restaurants. He doesn't mind the kids so much, he says-it's the adults: "They always wait till you are about to put the steak in your mouth...
...angrily tore up its own contract with the Football Coaches' Association, which had picked the Post's All-Americas. This week, while the Post looked for substitutes, Collier's calmly prepared to add the association to its list of pickers. Even without Granny Rice's autograph on it, Collier's appeared to have recovered the ball...
...visitors. They came afoot, on bicycles or riding two-wheeled donkey carts. As they waited for Maria's death, their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine...