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...yacht Britannia, a beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic...
...other night when Cora Walles and her brother William were finally killed and the house burned around their bodies, I cannot help resenting the reflections cast in your last paragraph on members of the posse slicing up the bodies of the dead negroes and taking them home for souvenirs (TIME, May 25). That part of the account is absolutely false, as the bodies were turned over to a licensed undertaker, who buried both bodies in the family burying ground on the place where the unfortunate battle between the members of the finest body of State Troopers...
...gates of the Indianapolis Speedway opened at 6 a. m. First customers were two Illinois sisters named Ford who had been camping at the entrance in their sedan for three weeks, selling souvenir photographs of themselves to buyers farther back in the mile-long queue. By 9 o'clock the grandstands were almost full. Inside the oval of the 2 ½-mile brick track, remnants of the crowd of 168,000 wriggled into rows of bleachers on the tops of busses...
Unlike surly, monosyllabic Joe Louis, John Henry Lewis is an affable, talkative young black who spends his spare time shooting pool or picking out popular tunes on a piano, prefers Y.M.C.A.'s to hotels, and, as a souvenir of an adolescence spent in the roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp...
...first seven lines of an acrostic continuing through Florida East Coast Railway, this verse was written by one J. B. Killegrew and included in a souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels...