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...tried to compress into the booklet as many such facts as are needed to make the conventions meaningful to the average voter and citizen. In addition to being a convention guide, the booklet is also designed as a personal record book, which you may wish to keep as a souvenir of one of the most important events of this decade...
...University of Nebraska one night last week, 400 spring-feverish students poured out of the fraternity houses and the men's dormitories to stage a mass invasion of Sorority Row. They knocked down one house mother, swarmed up ladders and pillars, smashed windows, made off with 250 souvenir panties, girdles and brassieres. Next night, armed with pots of paint to daub their victims, they decided to re-enact the Rape of the Sabines, in the process thoroughly doused Dean Theos J. Thompson. "This has got to stop!" cried the dean. It did-after $700 worth of damage...
Palestinian Prison. Business on both sides of this divided city is almost dead. The proprietor of Bulos' souvenir shop just inside Jaffa Gate in the Arab section surveyed his empty store and the empty street leading to the gate where Arab Legionnaires, checked kaffiyehs on their heads, blocked the way. "Before the war," he said, "at this time of the morning the street would be jammed with tourists from the King David Hotel. By Sunday night the counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store...
...paintings were timid and incompetent, though sometimes rather pretty. Their souvenir value rose and fell with Hitler's own fortunes. Now that the artist has passed into history, the hunt is on again for signed, original Hitlers. He himself remembered having painted 300 pictures, but got back only 50 of them. Last week German dealers were scrabbling for the 250 paintings that may theoretically remain. Mainly to spur search, some of them were encouraging the rumor that a first-class Hitler might bring as much...
Touring India to glean material for a book on "the economic possibilities" of the country, Eleanor Roosevelt stopped in Karachi where the All-Pakistan Women's Association presented her with a souvenir, a colorful dopatta (shawl) which she promptly put on for the benefit of photographers. Later, after a dinner party in Lahore where eight little Pakistani girls did a Punjabi folk dance, Mrs. Roosevelt amazed and delighted the guests by going through a 15-minute exhibition of the Virginia Reel...