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Broken English. At an earlier school, he had made rather a good thing of selling his autograph to all comers at 35?, until officials put a stop to it and returned the money. According to newspaper reports, when Prince Charles ran short last December, he sold his composition book containing four school-assigned essays to a classmate for $4. Gordonstoun's Headmaster Robert Chew says there is "absolutely no truth" to the report. But the classmate did get the copybook and sold it for $20 to a Gordonstoun alumnus who did even better by selling it to an Aberdeen...
Despite the change, Keating has been unable to eliminate the image of the past. He is not the magnetic, crowd-drawing candidate that Bobby Kennedy is. Keating can walk from Madison Square Garden onto Seventh Avenue without a soul stopping him to shake his hand or ask for his autograph. He can go to a state Baptist convention in the Bronx to find that scarcely 100 people have showed up to hear him in a hall that would seat four or five times that many...
...various times, the President sucked on gumdrops to ease a hoarse throat, threw a high school band off key by marching into its midst to autograph the bass drum and led his own cheers with the help of a bullhorn, crying: "All the way with L.B.J...
There, the son of a South Dakota druggist toured the university school of pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist's jacket to pose for pictures, and scrawled on a prescription pad thrust into his hand by an autograph-hunting student the words "Vote Democratic...
Surtees, brilliant in his own right, could only watch in awe. At the finish, Clark was 10.4 sec. ahead. Face streaked with mud, he stood stiffly at attention for God Save the Queen, and then dived into a car to escape hordes of autograph hunters. "This postrace hullabaloo really kills me," he said. "My stomach gets all knotted...