Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined the boycott. Some even proposed bonfires where listeners might incinerate Beatle disks, books and memorabilia...
...Rebekah Johnson was discovering America." So wrote Lyndon's mother in the family album in 1908. The celebrated passage now hangs, framed, in the replica of his five-room birthplace, which has just been built on the original's decayed foundation. Another bit of memorabilia in the new presidential shrine, which is just a mile from the present L.B.J. ranch: a china-doll clown that was a Christmas present to an aunt from little Lyndon, then four. "He proudly handed it over," burbled a White House press release, "telling her delightedly that it cost a dime...
...came only after a number of sculptors-including David Smith, Richard Lippold and Jean Arp -were considered. Scholars at M.I.T. tested the Calder design in a wind tunnel, then they buried beneath it a time capsule that included a Betty Crocker cookbook, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, 1964 coins, M.I.T. memorabilia, and a copy of TIME...
...strips of damask wall covering have been torn away and the crystal pendants on some of the light fixtures have been stolen, as have many of the name cards on the dressing-room doors. To discourage further looting, the Met has removed most of the paintings, sculpture and memorabilia on display...
...lawsuit about publication of Ernest Hemingway memorabilia, his widow Mary noted that royalties from his works have averaged $200,000 a year since his death...