Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tranquility landing site of the Apollo 11 moon shot. American life on earth will be covered by a series of exhibits of architecture, folk art, and a review of the realistic tradition in U.S. painting, from Gilbert Stuart to Andrew Wyeth. A mixed-media sports exhibit will include memorabilia of baseball's greats. The U.S. avant-garde will be represented by the results of an art and technology program; twenty artists including Claes Oldenburg and Tony Smith have been working for the past year with industrial plants to see what closer collaboration between artist and artisan...
Over 15 million pages of documents from the Kennedy Administration as well as some 10,000 items of memorabilia-including the President's favorite rocking chair-have already been collected for the library. The items are presently located at the Federal Records Center in Waltham, Mass., where a staff of four men is sorting them...
...cashmere pullover that was a present from her husband, John F. Kennedy. Scribbled across the letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other letters indicates certain...
Down at Newport Beach, Wayne also makes it livable for the most number of people. Out in Newport Bay bobs his boat, Wild Goose II. Lesser men would have a yacht; Wayne's craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams...
...betray good taste and personal ethics, especially since Mrs. Gallagher signed a routine pledge to maintain secrecy about her White House days. "Mary never had much of a sense of history," said her husband, explaining that otherwise she would have kept a lot more White House memorabilia. To her former employer, it must seem that Mrs. Gallagher's sense of history was all too keen. In any event, the lesson for men and women of Jackie's eminence is quite clear. Never write memos. Never keep accounts. And above all, never bawl out a secretary...