What's in a name? Fortunes

04 June 2015 - 02:13
By Shaun Smillie

Christine got around. She hobnobbed with the stars of her day, if only briefly. But in those brief encounters, she persuaded them to append their autographs - and she did it over and over.The band The Searchers signed her book, as did Cliff Richard. John Lennon signed it twice.Christine collected those autographs more than half a century ago and next week they are expected to fetch tens of thousands of rands at auction in Johannesburg.

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