Word: souvenired
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...Admiral Horatio Nelson himself disappeared, hijacked by a group of Irish art students. The boys sold it for $840 to London Antique Dealer Benjamin Gray, who carried it back to England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody wanted it. "I even tried the Prime Minister and the lord mayor," said Gray. Finally a few members of the Dublin City Council agreed to meet Gray in a perfunctory little...
...coin shortage? Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo blames it mostly on the increasing number of vending machines and on foreign tourists who, whether souvenir collecting or through negligence, leave the country with pockets ajangle with lire. The worst offender is undoubtedly the ordinary Italian. Still not confident about the long-range future of his country's economy, he is hoarding coins against the day when paper money loses its value. As one result, the piggy bank has become one of the hottest items in Italian stores...
...April. Opera buffs pried off seat numbers, and ripped down damask wall coverings. Not to be outdone, RCA Victor carted away (after paying $10,000) the gold brocade curtain and announced that it would cut the drapery into 45,000 patches and include one in each copy of a souvenir-record album called Opening Nights at the Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet for publicity's sake. Then she hurried back to rehearsals at the new Met, where...
There, he had hung a colored reproduction of the Met's 15th century Flemish Merode altarpiece as a souvenir of one of his grandest coups. In 1957 he had the pleasure of propping up the original in his tapestry-hung office, while King Baudouin was trying to keep the masterpiece in Belgium. What the King did not know was that the horse had long since left the barn; the triptych that the art experts thought was the original was only a dimly lit copy...
...surrounded by doctors who tried to make him eat 64 live snails as a pick-me-up, L'Aiglon died. "Between my cradle and my tomb," he said not long before the end, "there is a great null." He had to be buried with a hat on because souvenir hunters had snipped off all his hair...