Word: autographing
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...moneymaking, money-losing frenzy was started by a statement from Tel-Autograph's President Raymond E. Lee that his company had been told by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.: "For the first time message-rate telewriter service will be permitted over telephone lines on a local and long-range basis." "This means," stated Lee, "it is now possible to send a handwritten message instantaneously by telephone...
...also expansively predicted that the use of telescribing equipment would increase a hundredfold. In one day Tel-Autograph soared 5f points. Lee had-carefully or carelessly-created the impression that TelAutegraph had an exclusive deal with...
...buttons, heaved against him as he tried to push his way through. "God bless you!" they cried. "The country needs you, Barry!" they yelled. "I want to shake your hand! You're the only real Republican in the running!" A man thrust a book under his nose shouting "Autograph my Bible!" and handed him a copy of Barry's credo, The Conscience of a Conservative...
...band of Baltimore Orioles. The man most re sponsible for the fact that the Orioles are fluttering giddily around the top of the American League: Manager Paul Rapier Richards, 51, a sharp-featured, sharp-thinking Texan with a rare talent for developing young players. Last week, while kids with autograph books were besieging his long-forlorn Orioles in the lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Richards ordered a breakfast of prune juice, dry cereal and coffee in suite 727-729 and leaned back to talk about the task of building a winner from scratch...
...from the Taj Mahal, the afternoon sun beat down last week on a crowded courtyard in the heart of the business district. Underneath a gaudy orange canopy, a gaunt, hawk-nosed old man in a homespun dhoti and sandals talked, beamed when children rushed up to get his autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...