Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maniacs starting today at the Bradford Hotel, 275 Tremont St. in Boston. The whole thing is being put together by a 27-year-old full-time Beatle-maniac named Joe Pope, who spends the year editing a magazine called Strawberry Fields, roaming all over the country searching for Beatle memorabilia, and revving up for the annual convention. A few years ago, Pope had the idea of giving a party for a few of his friends who were heavily into the Beatles, but the thing has grown to such proportions that 3000 people came last year and Pope says he expects...
There were scattered protests; residents adjoining the site began to complain in the early '70s about architect I.M. Pei's colossal architectural mock-ups and the potential pollution spawned by tourists flocking to Cambridge to gawk at the museum's coconuts, busts and other memorabilia...
...Removal. The proposal faces, however, one enormous obstacle. The 35,000 cu. ft. of Nixon material currently in Government custody, including 880 White House tapes, by law is not under his control. Many of Nixon's personal papers and memorabilia are stored at Laguna Niguel, Calif, but the 1974 Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act forbids removal of the presidential material from the Washington, D.C., area. The law also ensures that portions of the material could be made available in pending criminal and civil proceedings that involve Nixon or his former associates...
Erika S. Chadbourn, the curator of the Law School Library, has spent much time compiling the exhibit over the past year, drawing material from the library's collection of Holmes papers and memorabilia. The glass cases interspersed throughout the library each cover a different period in Holmes's life. "I try to tell a story that way," Chadbourn said of the exhibit, which will remain on display until June...
...case of memorabilia comes next. Among photos of Holmes lies a printed program from "Harvard College Class Day Exercises 21 June. 1861," for which he wrote the class poem. A Harvard Commencement address he delivered in 1911 and various Civil War mementoes. Including his sword, are also here...