Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birmingham struck out six batters, issued no walks, allowed only two hits in shutting out Schenectady, 1 to 0. The losers, moist-eyed but not bawling, pattered from their dugout to congratulate the Alabama players, who triumphantly hoisted Sims to their shoulders. The winners were then engulfed by autograph-hunting bobby-soxers. Piped one downy-cheeked champion: "This is worse than the game...
...LaSalle has given 150 of them, and as many regular concerts. Last academic year it played for the public schools in Colorado Springs, and soon found students dragging their parents to evening concerts. Now the members of the group are local celebrities; they are stopped on the streets by autograph hunters...
...learning, if he has not learned already, the routine of the big-city celebrity, including banquets, TV and radio appearances, thrusting autograph books, phone calls from strangers at all hours. He takes all this with a mixture of dutiful politeness and a country man's caution. But he can also rise to an occasion. Last month he was presented to the Duke of Windsor, who had just watched the Yankees for the first time in his life. The duke wanted "particularly to meet that switcher fellow...
...things are more time-wasting than an academic ceremony, even if it comes but once a year. Yet, many of they yearly concentration interviews between freshmen and departmental representatives are just that-an institutionalized way of getting a professor's autograph, perhaps, but otherwise a waste, of time for the both professor and student. Of course, some representatives are up on the course offerings in their department, and can offer valuable advice. A few even seek out freshmen in the elementary courses in their fields to offer guidance. But since almost every teacher in each department, is expected to pitch...
About three months later, Richardson and TIME's part-time Cairo correspondent, Mohammed Wagdi, visited Naguib to present him with Ernest Hamlin Baker's original cover portrait. When Richardson reminded him of their earlier meeting, Naguib grinned broadly, bent over to autograph a copy of the TIME cover for Richardson with the words: "I am grateful to TIME forever." Naguib then told TIME's correspondents that he intended to stay in power until Egypt had reached a point where the policies he had begun would be carried on of their own momentum...