Word: souveniring
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...barber named Aouni leafs through an Egyptian picture magazine while he waits in his shabby shop for a late customer. From the bare-walled coffee shop comes the click of dice. An aged street vendor watches for hungry pilgrims with his roasted peanuts, and the Moslem proprietor of the souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast. A bright red poster...
Anything Goes (Paramount), as far as most moviegoers are concerned, so long as Bing Crosby is in it. For The Groaner's golden anniversary in films (this is his 50th picture) his studio could supply the public with nothing better than this leaden souvenir, but it will probably keep the turnstiles squeaking...
...Washington's American Newspaper Women's Club, the Democrats' most eligible spinster, Mary Margaret Truman, 32, got tea and congratulations from her old capital cronies over the serialized publication of her memoirs, Souvenir. A newshen asked whether Margaret and her memoir-penning father had exchanged views on each other's works. Said Margaret: "He does his writing. I do mine." Meanwhile, two Hollywood studios were wooing Margaret with propositions to play herself in film versions of her short young life and high old times...
...such assistance was needed. In Chicago he trudged through the manure in the stockyards, spotted and sold (to a livestock commission buyer) a choice lot of hogs at $15.25 a hundredweight, 25? above the day's previous high. Given a stockman's cane as a souvenir of his feat, Benson later referred to the cane as a reminder that hogs should never "go below that price again." But before the week was out, the top for hogs in Chicago had slipped...
...Roman court auction of confiscated goods, Italy's ailing Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti popped up as the only bidder for a treasured souvenir, a ,38-cal. pistol, plus four cartridges (one unfired), the implements of an assassination try made on Togliatti in 1948 by a Sicilian student. Going, going, gone...