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Pollock usually tries at least twice for each autograph, but quit after one try with Stalin's son. He sent the cover to the Russian embassy in Washington, enclosing a forwarding envelope with $4 worth of airmail and special-delivery stamps. At the embassy, Vasily Stalin's name was crossed out, Pollock's written in, and the letter was returned, using up the $4 in postage...
Amid the mob immediately after the game, a little girl asked for Art Pappas' autograph...
Caruso himself, at any rate, never commanded the hysterical adulation that swamped Lanza last winter and spring on his latest concert tour. Sam Weiler has a nightmarish memory of a fracturing scene in Scranton, Pa., where the tour began: "We get to the department store [to autograph record albums], and we can't get through the people. They make an aisle for us. There were women everywhere. You couldn't move. They were trampling merchandise, standing on washing machines, on counters, everywhere. Some women yelled, 'Hey, Mario, be my love!' They started shoving. The Fire Department...
...Shut Up!" Mario no sooner checked into his hotel than the phone calls from bobby-soxers began. Some of them had come 60 miles just to get his autograph. Syria Mosque, where Mario was to sing, is the biggest hall in Pittsburgh (3,800 seats), but it had been sold out 48 hours after the ticket window opened. Edward Specter, manager of the symphony, threw precedent to the winds and sold tickets to Mario's warmup rehearsal the afternoon before. They went nearly as fast...
Hollywood autograph dealers listed some spring bargains. Signatures of Cinemactresses Betty Grable and Virginia Mayo were in stock at 40? each, William S. Hart at 50?. Lily Rons and Buster Keaton were tagged at $2, Joe DiMaggio at $3. Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, the late Rudolph Valentino, John Barrymore and Director D. W. Griffith were $10 items; George Gershwin, $15; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, $30; Harry Truman...