Word: memorabilia
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Rose Mary Woods will continue to serve Nixon in Washington, drawing a $42,000 salary out of his federal office allotment. She has been zealously guarding Nixon's varied left-behind memorabilia and fuming at court orders that impounded them. Both Nixon's attorneys and the special prosecutor's staff last week asked Federal Judge Charles Richey to permit the transfer to Nixon of such items as his reading glasses, a wedding picture of Tricia, and his collection of elephants and gavels. Friends find her bitter and, according to one, "pretty worn down with the frustration...
...good chance to see them in good time. Evidently, the directors of the library don't believe this, because right now, through Jan. 10, there's a show in the lobby of the Kennedy building in Government Center titled: "Christmas in the White House". Mounds of early-'60s memorabilia, including a pearl Nativity scene from King Hussein...
...career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work. And when he applied brush and watercolors to certain subjects-a bucking bronco, a string of Indian ponies-Borein had a rare gift for bringing them back alive...
...past; inside, each car will contain one segment of what the train's sponsors call "a moving monument to history": such themes in the national life as "Origins," "Exploration and Expansion," "Sports" and the like. The exhibits will include carefully culled artifacts, documents, photographs and other memorabilia-from inflammatory Revolutionary broadsides to a film of Babe Ruth hitting a home...
...week treat in 1951 that they pasted up a scrapbook of Jackie's curlicued drawings and rhymes and Lee's stories, which they entitled One Special Summer. "We are not the Bronte sisters," admits Lee in the foreword to the book, which has been discovered among family memorabilia and is being excerpted in the November Ladies' Home Journal. No, they are not. But their piercing candor made them memorable young tourists. Mischievous too. Jackie accompanied Lee to a singing lesson in Venice with one of Italy's foremost sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister...