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...outside the meeting rooms of the conference, the New York Governor showed that despite the steep drop in his popularity rating after his remarriage, he is still a political personality. Again and again at Miami Beach, the beaming Governor and his smiling wife Margaretta were surrounded by eager autograph seekers. They did not even need to sign their last name-they just scrawled "Rocky" and "Happy...
...like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
...four-day celebration in Gangtok, whose normal population of 12,000 swelled to 15,000 for the event. Mountain tribesmen in blue pajamalike clothes danced in the streets. Mixing happily with the celebrators, Hope settled into her new role with aplomb. When a pigtailed Sikkimese girl asked for her autograph, the new crown princess signed without a moment's hesitation: "Hope Namgyal...
Among the autograph seekers are quite a number of serious collectors, of whom the champion is Retired U.S. Army Colonel Robert F. Carter, 63, of Topsham, Me. (TIME, May 4, 1959), who now has 1,100 autographed TIME covers. Colonel Carter, who has all but 40 of the more than 2,080 issues of TIME published since the first one dated March 3, 1923, plans to have his collection carried on to March 3, 2023, TIME'S 100th anniversary. He plans in his will to provide that the collection be sold, and the proceeds given to charity...
Onto TIME'S own mail desk recently dropped a letter from a reader who, while granting that he can never catch up with Colonel Carter, aims to become the leading collector of autographed TIME covers outside the U.S. He is Randall Salas, a slim, 17-year-old high school senior in Caracas, Venezuela. Randall, who was born in Curaçao and speaks English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamento (a Caribbean lingua franca), started his collection only in 1959. But he had a head start: his father, an insurance broker, has been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many...