Word: autographing
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After watching Britain's Prince Philip and his team of Welsh Guards gambol through a polo match, U.S. Embassy Secretary Elizabeth Davis (granddaughter of the late Norman H. Davis, an F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis...
...Tender and Rittoru Dahring (Little Darling). Hi rao is solemnly described by one of his fans as "Japan's Elvis Presley but more acceptable to us because his gestures are not so obscene." Hirao's father, who manufactures teen-age cosmetics, prints his son's autograph on every box, and says: "I can't understand his music, but he and I can do business...
...University of Minnesota Coed Geri Storm brought word from her 58 sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy aged perceptibly while barely escaping with his skin from autograph-hunting students who mobbed him backstage after a speech. In Oklahoma City, a grey-haired lady gushed: "I've come to see him because I think he's wonderful." At a Washington dinner party, a tipsy woman flung herself onto Kennedy's lap, locked her arms around...
...curious and unbelieving to scoff at and ridicule? I am sure that the God who gave Miss Baldwin the talent to write must be wide-eyed with pleasure at the results. He might also be tempted to suddenly appear in human form and ask for Author Baldwin's autograph...
...comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting for God's autograph...