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...grog flowed as from a well. Then Cinemale Robert Mitchum, in Ireland to star in an Irish Republican Army epic titled A Terrible Beauty, walked in. The facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted...
Nixon-style, he would thrust his hand at surprised tourists, introduce himself, pat the heads of little children. Few knew who he was, but he was eager to autograph any handy piece of paper, insistently got himself photographed by camera fans ("Send the picture to me. Kozlov, the Kremlin, Moscow"). Accosting one woman during a supermarket tour, he asked whether she was the mother of a child who was with her. "No," replied the elderly woman. "I'm a grandmother." "Ah," roared Kozlov, "but you are so young...
...usual crowds of admirers and autograph hunters were missing when Billy landed at Moscow's airport. In his party: boyhood pal and associate Grady Wilson, his male secretary and two U.S. businessmen-Printing Tycoon William Jones of Los Angeles, who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Charlotte (N.C.) Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible instruction from Billy en route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said...
...Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy of Churchill's war memoirs, "I would be honored," and Churchill did so. At times during the afternoon at the hospital Eisenhower was plainly choked...
Three members of Colonel Carter's class of 1919 at West Point, four-star Generals Alfred Gruenther, Albert Wedemeyer and Nathan Twining, were subjects of TIME covers, and each one signed. Gruenther also helped get the autograph of Field Marshal Montgomery, who wrote across his cover portrait, "Montgomery of Alamein." Another West Pointer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, class of 1915, has appeared on TIME'S cover more than anyone else-13 times since 1942, as soldier, candidate and President*-and has signed two covers for Carter...