Word: memorabilia
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...impecunious journalist asks me to refuse [his requests for material] on an insulting postcard, so that he can dispose of it to a collector for the price of a meal." That particular letter brought the price of a pretty good meal-$250-at an auction of G.B.S. letters and memorabilia at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. A total of $41,900 was paid for the 165 lots-including $4,250 for a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his "undeservedly beloved," a nurse named Alice Lockett. "I am," he wrote, "opinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy...
...Museum of Fine Arts, another is the "Chronology" which was taken from the Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, and another is the "Bibliography" taken from James Agee. Promise and Fulfillment by Kenneth Seib. To Agee-philes these artifacts are already solidly part of the scanty and passionate memorabilia of the man. A retrospective reaffirmation is all they call...
...Irving, a modestly successful cartoonist who drew covers for Collier's magazine and a comic strip called Pottsy-about a fat, amiable policeman-for the New York Daily News. The elder Irving was fascinated by cops and filled the apartment on West End Avenue with police memorabilia...
...336th annual fall sports quiz, the Crimson sports cube takes you on a nostalgic journey through the gates, portals, sections, rows and seats of college football memorabilia. After having dealt with the early gridiron heroes and glamor boys in former quizzes, this autumn the sports cube staff focuses on the '50's and '60's, when fans witnessed the rise and fall and then rebirth of a strategy called platoon football...
Besides dreaming up seemingly endless new series for his membership,* Segel publishes a monthly magazine providing background about the memorabilia and produces medals for groups that use them as a fund-raising device. The White House Historical Association, for example, has offered members a series depicting U.S. First Ladies, and the U.S. Olympic Committee sold one celebrating sports events including the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Franklin's founder is still slightly mystified at the collector instinct that his operation has uncapped. Says he: "Some retired people wait for the new medal each month and call the neighbors...