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...high spot in this small but interesting exhibit is a first edition of James Boswell's "Life of Johnson." This quarto was printed in 1791 in two volumes and presented to Sir Joshua Reynolds by the author, whose autograph appears on the title page...
Another case contains a special two-volume edition of "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets." It is "illustrated with portraits, views and autograph letters; water color drawings and proof engravings illustrating Pope's work and translation." Several letters from Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds are included in this rare book...
Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light...
...title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
...love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter who asked him to write his full name: "I'm like Garbo. I just sign my last...