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This concern for integrity, tradition and education was responsible for what organizers consider to be a modest list of 10 official memorabilia items (Since drawing up and publishing the list. Harvard and Yale have stopped offering two items, because of little interest. Women's Stick Pin ($65) and the 14k gold cuff links, whose price had been available upon request...
...crowd that the vast number of private entrepreneurs aim, some wags note. "It's unbelievable," says Michael Cox. Yale's manager of consessions operations. "I'm sure the day of The Game there are going to be so many pirates and bootleggers." Cox, nevertheless, reports healthy sales for official memorabilia, including the $30 Ticket in Lucite, for which one company recently placed a large order "to give all their junior executives or something...
...scheduled airline in the continental U.S., touched down at New York City's Kennedy International Airport. During its 2-hr. 40-min. flight from Miami, the jet's 79 passengers ceremoniously sipped champagne. Before disembarking, the travelers stripped the aircraft of most detachable memorabilia, including seat-number plaques and safety instruction cards. Flight attendants used their lipsticks to write "Goodbye, we love you" on walls and seats. On the plane's silver fuselage a Miami gate agent had scribbled, "I was the last agent to close the door on a 707." But at J.F.K. another agent crossed...
...Baumann's home is filled with Harvard--memorabilia--photographs, scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings, and hundreds of cards and letters. Included in the stacks is a bulging packet of notes from Karim Aga Khan '59, the spiritual leader of the Pakistani Islamic sect, music composed by Joseph Raposo '58, articles by Eugene Bell, and a book by poet David McCord '56 autographed "To my friends Elsie and Henry, who made Cambridge a better city...
...over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...