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Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...Gimbel advt. of last week: "Albie Booth, sensational football player, will be in our Sporting Goods Department all evening. Albie will demonstrate and autograph 'Touchdown,' the new football game...
...expression of love in his pen. Two letters, one written when he became ambassador to Spain and the other at the time he was the representative of the United States at the Court of St. James, have never been published. These letters are entirely in his autograph...
...months ago announcement by L.E. Waterman Co. (pens,ink) of an autograph-collecting contest for children under 16, loosed a horde of some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch...
...attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...