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...weekly intramural sports schedule in Amherst College's Pratt dorm spells Eisenhower. Ike's only grandson, David, 18, signs it as sports chairman of the dorm, and his classmates have been having their own kind of sport with it. They send the signature home as a souvenir, and in a matchmaking spirit have even mailed a couple of mint specimens to Smith College Freshman Julie Nixon, 17. Except for the holograph hounds, though, the little Lord Jeffreys make no fuss over David. "We have a Cabot at Amherst," explains an insouciant classmate, "and that's as high...
...loot, unsalable in Britain, must be got out. But how? In Alec Guinness' Lavender Hill Mob, the gold was melted down into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped to Paris. In Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, the villain fled England in a Rolls-Royce whose body was made of solid gold. Scotland Yard has boarded and inspected all ships departing England-so far to no avail. Somewhere in England, the 144 gold bricks, whose telltale markings can easily be erased by melting, were probably bubbling merrily in a cauldron...
...home in Barcelona after his first unsuccessful foray on Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1902 painted a somber, Blue Period portrait of a woman, barefoot, with child in arms and holding a single bright red flower. At Sotheby's auction house last week, Picasso's down-and-out souvenir, Mother and Child by the Sea, brought the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist: $532,000, more than double the previous record, also held by Picasso, whose Death of Harlequin sold...
...Souvenir Detectors" [March 24] brought back nostalgic memories of the times when, as kids in a less sophisticated era, we went on these treasure hunts in Atlanta. Our method was to walk to the woods and grub around on our hands and knees for hours, our eyes on the ground. Pushing aside the matted undergrowth and rotting vegetation, we came upon many finds. My brother had quite a creditable collection of Minie balls, spent shells, uniform buttons, and other bits and pieces of unidentifiable metal left behind by Yankee soldiers during the Battle of Atlanta. However, the prize...
...grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi neighbors...