Word: autographing
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...autograph one copy of Gone With the Wind, Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, had to sign her name 30 times. Reason: it was printed in Braille, filled 4,110 pages, 30 volumes...
...Washington, Horace Dwight Taft, 14-year-old son of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, got something out of the U. S. Treasury: an autograph from Secretary Henry Morgenthau...
...Passed a bill to make it easier for widows of ex-Presidents to use the mails free of charge. Present law requires their "written autograph signatures" on their envelopes. The new bill, which went to the Senate, would permit them to put their names on their envelopes with a rubber stamp...
...hate the music business" . . . "They won't let you stay at the top. They won't give you a chance to breathe" . . . "Autograph hunters? To hell with them! Often I've played for 2,500 or 3,000 people and 1,000 would stand around the stand staring at me. They aren't listening--only gawking" . . . "Then they want autographs. Nothing doing! I'm too busy with my job. Sometimes I let my valet sign my name, and they're just as satisfied." . . . "My friends say I'm a damned fool. They say that these people made me. Want...
...Angeles last fortnight for an eastern personal appearance tour, among the crowd that saw him off at the station was a wrinkle-faced, red-mopped little man who looked enough like Mickey Rooney to be his father. Soon the news got around that he was. Asked for his autograph, Comedian Joe Yule, at 44 the veteran of 36 years on the professional stage, smilingly consented. Said he: "It's the first time anybody ever asked...