Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the glum testaments and boring memorabilia most men bequeath to the world, Ernest Hemingway left behind an invitation to laugh with him amid the scenes of his youth, where he was happier than he would ever be again. Almost, it seems like a last-minute appeal from a man who suddenly felt himself trapped in his own latter-day legend as "Papa...
These titles will join the ever-lengthening list of books and other memorabilia-busts, medallions, picture albums, records-about the life and death of President Kennedy (TIME...
...official U.S. national museum, faithfully attended by 14.5 million visitors a year, the Smithsonian still avidly collects national memorabilia-General Eisenhower's dress uniform, the Friendship 7 space capsule-but at the venerable age of 118, much of its mildew has been cleaned off. The old fossil is in the midst of a flourishing rejuvenation. In the first step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue...
Even as literary memorabilia, the book is made suspect by Harris' ravening ego and his congenital inability to tell the truth. Son of a Royal Navy lieutenant, Harris ran away from his native Galway at 15 and made his way to the U.S. Eventually he became a European correspondent for several U.S. newspapers. When Russian General Mikhail Skoboleff gallantly galloped into the mouths of the Turkish cannon at Plevna, Harris was (he says) "naturally at his heels." Other witnesses recall that he covered the war from a brothel in Odessa...
...Burton, a salad bowl from John Barrymore. "Bric-a-brac, that's what it all is," says Theatrical First Lady Helen Hayes, 63, who has already put up for sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died of polio in 1949. Having a last look around before flying off to winter in Mexico, the actress evinced few regrets. "The financial...