Word: autographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase. Last week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...more important than any other "paesano" to the vast Italian population of this country. But just two weeks ago, when the agents of WHCN went in town to get the New Orleans-born trumpet man for their Jazz Orgy, the stage entrance was literally jammed with enthusiastic autograph seekers from Hanover Street...
Staff Sergeant William P. Whelan, East Pittsburgh, Pa.: "One day we saw General Mihailovich. We got his autograph and he was very amused by this. ... I get very mad when I know that he is classified as a traitor and his life is at stake...
...Your Cake. In Fargo's Gardner Hotel they faced pressmen, autograph hunters, bobby-soxers. Clint Anderson took the floor to explain that U.S. wheat farmers could now combine the 30? bonus with the previously announced "certificate plan"-thus assuring them the best possible price for their wheat any time between now and March 1947, no matter when they sell...
...that was tattered. They displayed it as best they could, by exhibiting supercilious boredom during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale. He wore it proudly, shunning the civvies G.I.s had presented to him with the note...