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...proper perspective the success of flash-in-the-pans like Bruce Lietzke, Tom Purtzer, former NCAA champ Curtis Strange, and Fuzzy Zoeller, who finished third at Inverrary. The latter's real name is Frank Urwin Zoeller but because of his poor penmanship, he took to signing his autograph F.U.Z. and the nickname stuck...
Outside in the lobby Rabbi Baruch Korff, head of the Nixon defense fund, was completing an interview. We got his autograph...
...wines of Burgundy--implying that maybe the reason nobody had talked to Hitler's sister was that she had nothing to say. But the final word on this book was probably inadvertently delivered by Reeves himself, when he tells of Clare Smith's attempt to get Hunter Thompson's autograph. After many abortive attempts, she finally gets it, and asks Thompson why he isn't writing Fear and Loathing, 1976. "Because of shit like this," Dr. Thompson screams, adding, "Now get out of here!" Shit like this does seem a pretty poor reason to write a book...
...suburban Los Angeles department store one day last week, some 3,000 people lined up with copies for Haley to autograph. To his astonishment, he said, he "encountered only five persons who didn't have more than one copy of the book. Some came with as many as eight. One woman gave me two copies and said the second was for the baby in her stomach...
Sporting goods stores and pro shops, long the subdued redoubt of the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph and the Dunlop Maxply Fort, now offer such large and varied arrays of racquets that the average player is bound to be confused. Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension...