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Then there was the time I lectured at Harvard. I was invited that time. I spoke on the subject of "How to be Intelligent Though Educated." They came to scoff, but they stayed to ... ask for my autograph anyway. It was the custom in that era for lady lecturers to have question and answer periods. So I had one too. What did they ask me?... for my telephone number, which shows that they were intelligent if not educated (what am I saying...
...hours it looked as if Errol Flynn's trial for statutory rape was about to come to a premature end. Alleged rapee Betty Hansen had told her intimate story in court. Admiring women had ogled Flynn in court and begged his autograph. Then a bombshell was exploded by the prosecution in accusing two jurors (women) of using fraud and deceit in their eagerness to get on the jury-concealing the fact that they had already made up their minds about the case. But after a conference the judge dismissed one juror and ordered the case to go on-saving...
After leading her away from a coterie of equally observant autograph-seekers, he got his first closeup of Radcliffe's 1946 model. Blue-eyed with pleasantly blonde hair and a sloppily fitting pink sweater, Sue is a far cry from the heavyshoed, long-haired Amazon of former days...
...wrote those regulations. But they cover emergencies like this." Attendant (unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved: "I ain't selling any gas to anybody in a can. It goes in their tank, that...
...advice. Winchell has several times volunteered for active duty. But his broadcasts are among the Navy's most effective recruiting stunts and his benefits bring in much money for Navy Relief. How the Administration felt about him last week was clear: before Winchell left Washington, he got his autograph...