Word: autographing
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...back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
Steinbeck, all of Denmark is at your feet." A customs guard at the border demanded whether Steinbeck carried whiskey (Ans.: "Lots-I live on it"), cigarets (Ans.: "I chain-smoke"), decided: "In your case that's fine, as long as I may have your autograph...
...fellow delegates could hardly get used to his frequent smiles and handshakes, suspected that at times he even hovered on the brink of a backslap. Cracked he: "This is my first vacation since the Revolution." Oscar Englund, a waiter at the Waldorf, found Molotov gracious enough to give an autograph-though Englund later lost his job for his audacity. "So what?" said he. "That's history, what...
...place. Dinner was at 8; grouse from the royal moors was seryed, and the guests dined to the squeal of the King's pipers. Everybody danced reels and flings that night in the castle ballroom, and Captain John danced with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Margaret got Ike's autograph before he left...
...Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first met him he was a Coney Island stilt-walker and his square monicker was Archie Leach. . . . When he pushes past those spangle-starved kids and boots them around in print, he's putting a match to his own meal ticket...