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...Pole Vaulter Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter...
...system," he says. Maris never answers fan mail personally ("I got enough work to do without writing letters"), makes few charity appearances. "The club shouldn't expect you to go to hospitals. They don't ask, and I don't go." He avoids the autograph hounds who cluster daily outside the players' gate. "Kids have gotten too rough. They show no appreciation. They walk on your shoes and half tear your clothes off. I just walk away-I don't want to get one of their pencils...
Long one of TV's remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old daughter had pledged her allegiance : "After the campaign, we asked her who she was for, and she said, 'Gold-wah-wah.' " On college campuses, where Goldwater buttons and sprouting Goldwater clubs symbolize a bold challenge to liberal orthodoxy, he is an authentic hero; Young Americans for Freedom...
...warmth of the crowds that greeted him was enough to lure almost anyone back to politics. He had to fight his way past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper in Des Moines, 10,000 at a Detroit fund-raising rally, 1,100 at a $100-a-plate dinner in Columbus, where Young Republicans toasted him with a convention-style "demonstration," complete with victory banners such as "We'll do more...