Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lyric beat, TIME Toronto Bureau Chief Kenneth Froslid, concentrating on Alan Lerner, attended 13 performances, had to explain to autograph seekers that he was not Roddy McDowall. His biggest worry came when his subject was rushed to Toronto's Wellesley Hospital with a bleeding ulcer, but the physician did grudgingly allow three visitors: Lerner's wife, his collaborator and Fros-lid. When the lyricist returned twelve days later, Froslid was alongside-car-rying the Thermos bottle full of milk. By the time Froslid had completed his comprehensive interview, Lerner quipped, "Now that you are gone...
...sent her "100,000 kisses, all of which are to be cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria's crown, a giant's autograph, or something equally fantastic which would mean putting on my armor at once and setting out for the Orient?" Into such hyperbolic reveries crept the unaffected but affecting confession: "I was in love with none and am now with one." He was absurdly jealous and the two had their tiffs...
Vanderford's main claim to fame is a white beard that combines with a baseball cap and sports shirt to give him a resemblance to that bullock-befriending bard, Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. Vanderford plays his part to the hilt, occasionally signs Hemingway's name for autograph seekers (growls Papa: "I don't care if he signs my name as long as he doesn't sign checks"), and passes out cards bearing his picture, true name and coy inscriptions, reading in Spanish, "Although two drops of water look alike, they are different," and in English, "Everyone...
...Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...
...also expansively predicted that the use of telescribing equipment would increase a hundredfold. In one day Tel-Autograph soared 5f points. Lee had-carefully or carelessly-created the impression that TelAutegraph had an exclusive deal with...