Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would you care for my autograph?' She fixed a frozen eye on me, then raised the book so as to obscure me. I have often wondered about her behavior." Dame Edith chimed in coolly: "I have often mused that the lady suspected you, Osbert, of having nefarious motives." Bullish Tenor Mario Lanza, who recently played a real-life...
...immense fortunes, are just as miserable as the next fellow and that everyone within a fifty mile radius of Grauman's Chinese is awfully lonely behind the facade of glamor and sophistication. Perhaps these doctrines are healthy sops for those who go whole days without being asked for an autograph, but they are rather boring, especially when thrown into an already crowded agenda...
...matches the conventional picture of a capitalist. His Edward Lamb Enterprises, Inc. includes six radio and TV stations, the Erie (Pa.) Dispatch and six manufacturing concerns, with a total value of more than $30 million. He flies to plush ski resorts in his blue-grey Aero Commander, has an autograph collection valued at more than $50,000, and lives in a 126-year-old, $300,000 mansion. But to the Federal Communications Commission, Ted Lamb's capitalistic coloration is suspect. For ten weeks it has been investigating charges that Lamb committed perjury when he stated, on his 1948 application...
...know what this means to us," she gushed. "You see, Randy was born the day Ike was elected President." He got a hug from the President's lady. Two teenage boys stuck their heads in the rear window and shouted: "Hey, Mamie, how about your autograph?" She obliged. The volunteer workers serving coffee and doughnuts had a bad case of nerves. One confessed later: "My knees were so weak that I was afraid I'd pour coffee on the First Lady." Diet-conscious Mamie was a little unsettled herself by the doughnuts, but reached for one reluctantly...
...airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...