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When his talk was scheduled, the House committee thought that everything would run off smoothly as usual but it was not to be. They deemed that this would be a good chance to get the author of "Anthony Adverse" which is still the country's best-seller, to autograph the House Library's copy, and it would also be a courteous gesture. But, is and beheld, there was no copy to be found. The thing went along for a while and the House Committee confidently fait that some generous member of the House would make the contribution...
...fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...
...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...
...door of the elevator which runs to the stage floor by a fluttering flock of autograph hunting women, two B. U. students, working their way into a fraternity by getting autographed sheets of music, and the CRIMSON reporter, Rogers spent a busy five minutes scribbling his name on all sorts of paper and saying "Thank you," and smiling sweetly on the varied specimens of womanhood which clamored and pushed before him. The next moment his manager came to his rescue and whisked him upstairs to his dressing room. The manager explained to the reporter that Buddy had to make...
...Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...