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...SOUVENIR FROM QAM by Marc Connelly. 192 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...Souvenir Sneaker. Havlicek watched nervously as Greer set himself to throw the ball in. "I could tell he was going deep," he said. "I decided to gamble on the interception." Greer threw, Havlicek pounced. Timing his jump perfectly, he reached up and deflected the ball-straight into the hands of Teammate Sam Jones. The buzzer sounded, and by the narrowest of margins-one slim point-the Celtics retained the Eastern Division championship...
Delirious fans swarmed out of the stands and stormed the court as the weary Celtics tottered to the locker room. A souvenir hunter ripped a sneaker right off Bill Russell's foot. Of course, it was not over yet: the Celtics still had to get past the Los Angeles Lakers to rack up their seventh straight N.B.A. title. "Oh, they'll win," shrugged Chamberlain. But next year, baby! Maybe...
Next to sex, says Dawn, "souvenir-ing" is the most popular Olympic pastime. After those same 1958 Empire Games, there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside their girdles." Flags are particularly coveted: at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Dawn herself stole a five-ring Olympic banner from the Imperial Palace Grounds, was tackled by pursuing cops as she tried to dive into the palace moat. When police found out who she was, they made her a present...
Evie ogles the sights and buys a souvenir Statue of Liberty, but New York's hottest attraction turns out to be a greeting-card salesman named Harry (Glenn Ford). Evie looks at him and feels reckless. He looks at her and decides that she is nothing to write home about. Besides, he already has more than one postmistress. Engaged to a widow in Altoona (Angela Lansbury), he has just ended an affair with Artist Patricia Barry, and is warmly entreating the blonde (Barbara Nichols) at the hotel newsstand to be his "secret pal" for the night. The blonde agrees...