Word: autographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...from Hollywood, two dozen movie stars were hard at work last week at a booming cinema sideline: the personal-appearance tour. Braving the clothes-tugging of fans and the baying of autograph hounds, seven- stars had journeyed to London to show themselves at this week's Royal Film Performance. O'nce disdained as a last resort of the screen's has-beens, personal appearances have grown into a multi-million-dollar studio campaign to pep up a sluggish box office. Hollywood has learned that a star in the flesh can fatten a cinemansion's receipts...
...attraction for two independent sets of Cambridge High and Latin bobby-soxers was lead actor Ricardo Montalban. Suddenly discovering that Montalban was the one who sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" to Esther Williams in a recent MGM aquashow, the teenagers twice held up shooting with autograph battles...
National Society of Autograph Collectors...
Besieged by a crush of autograph hunters at a Paris swimming meet, ex-Olympic Champion and ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller fainted dead away...