Word: souveniring
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...Souvenir. To Dresdeners, Americans are people from another planet. The mother of a young boy asked if she could have an empty U.S. cigarette pack "as a remembrance." Surprisingly, most were fearlessly outspoken about their dislike of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime. "Why did you come here?" asked a salesgirl wonderingly. "Why does anyone come here?" Quipped a bitter bartender: "Have a socialist drink: crush one potato in a glass, drink it fast and try to think of vodka." "Shall I describe how it is to live here?" sneered a girl government clerk. "It stinks...
...their sports shirts hanging over their khaki shorts, clogged the noisy Manhattan Bar at Leopoldville's Hotel Regina, and diners at the Sabena guest house could still enjoy coquilles St. Jacques, snails and mussels flown in from Brussels. With the flood of U.N. soldiers in town, the souvenir business was bigger than ever; on every street corner, the inevitable Hausa traders from Nigeria offered carved ivory, lizard handbags and ebony figures at prices tailored to the foreigners' handsome wages...
...jammed, and the overflow reached as far away as Baltimore and Annapolis. Inaugural committees, swamped for tickets to the official functions, were in despair. It was hard enough to satisfy the requirements of the bigwigs who poured into town; even more embarrassing were the littlewigs who had been sent souvenir inaugural invitations and, mistaking them for the real thing, commandeered white ties and tails and rushed straightaway to Washington. Scalpers swept into action, unloaded $3 grandstand seats for $15 apiece, sold reservations for windowside tables in key restaurants along the route...
Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
...Last week in New Haven, the second Yale alumni loan show was drawing record throngs. They were inspecting 265 new selections of Yale art-from a 15th century wood panel, The Betrothal of St. Catherine of Siena, by Hans Holbein the Elder, to a contemporary Willem de Kooning oil, Souvenir to Toulouse...