Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty the jail. The magistrate explained that such wholesale amnesty was impossible. However, he pointed to two regular customers who were sober enough to be released if their fines were paid. Marion paid off ($14.75 apiece), added a couple of dollars for pocket money, and threw in her autograph for one of the men, who said he would need it as proof among his friends that the story of his release was not just a spirited illusion...
...because he had saved the franc. In newsreel theaters, flashes of the dignified little man in plain double-breasted suit and the homburg provoked wild applause-"the first politician since De Gaulle who has received spontaneous applause," reported an impressed minister after an afternoon at the movies. At the autograph exchange in the gardens of the Palais Royal, the signature of Antoine Pinay went to the top of the priority list. "Even before Jean Marais [the actor]?" Pinay asked incredulously when he learned of it. "Even before Orson Welles," he was told...
...wish to relate an experience I have had in connection with Senator Nixon ... I have the hobby of collecting autographed pictures of the persons who appear on the front covers of TIME . . . My method is to cut the picture from the magazine, mail it to the person concerned, ask for their autograph, and ask that they return the picture to me ... Of 17 returns of pictures which I have mailed to U.S. Senators and Representatives, Senator Nixon's envelope was the only one on which postage had been paid-the other 16 Congressmen preferring to return my picture...
...barely opened his mouth to say "Ladies & gentlemen . . ." when the engineer sent the Eisenhower train rolling inexorably away from the assembled crowd. At Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish: "No, no, Mamie. That...
...nice smile? She looked so proud of him. And weren't those children darling? They didn't move once while he was talking." She smiled and pointed to her handbag. "It's too bad they had to rush them off like that. He would've given me that autograph stare...