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...field is governed in great part by emotion, the feelings that collectors have toward the individuals who have written."Nonetheless, villains too have autograph appeal. Papers signed by John Wilkes Booth sell for around $1,000, ten times as much as writings by his gifted brother Edwin Booth. Benedict Arnold's three-page will sold for $2,800. Two known letters from Jesse James are worth between $5,000 and $10,000. Documents of Nazi leaders command high prices. Producer David Wolper, a collector of note, has a Christmas card that was sent by Al Capone...
...carrying a .45-cal. pistol was sighted on a catwalk in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium just an hour before President Ford was to speak there on Sept. 12. He eluded police. About four hours before Moore raised her gun outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, Benedict Silcio, a 27-year-old stevedore, was arrested in that city's Union Square park for threatening Ford. He had handed a note to a cashier in the St. Francis that proclaimed, "The mission: To gun down President Ford. Need to have a room for three people." Then he fled into the park...
What's this? Sultry Cher, with smoking eyebrows, dressed in chrome jeans? With green hair, holding a mercury ball? Indeed. To liven up the opening sequence of Cher's TV show this season, the producers hired Rollin Binzer, Jim Benedict and Leslie Brooks, three film makers who call themselves Kid Millions. Using photographs of their subject, the three painted on Daliesque wardrobes, added laser lights to create an eerie effect, and built a 58-second animated lead-in to the program. "I love it," announced the star after watching the first screening. "The only trouble is, it will...
...condenses vast amounts of scholarship into three volumes, presenting the complicated questions that feed into women's history in an objective, thoughtful and readable manner. The individual portraits were written by numerous scholars and authors from around the country (one of the best, on the pioneer cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, was penned by Donald Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, who is not known for his sympathy towards women) and double-checked by scores of graduate students and researchers. The comprehensiveness of the work is borne out by the fact that the editors have been notified of only one woman...
...Eagles, Parent found his way to the W.H.A.'s Philadelphia Blazers, signing a fat five-year $750,000 contract. That adventure too ended in disaster when Parent quit the team midway through the 1973 playoffs, claiming he had not been paid. Angry Blazer teammates called him a "hockey Benedict Arnold." "I knew how the guys felt," says Parent, "but there are times in your life when you have to look after yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken him back...