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Heavy Take. In Seattle, the Sealth Souvenir Shop reported the theft of its 7-ft., 200-lb. wooden Indian. In Rio de Janeiro, a university student made off with a municipal street...
...White House Renovation Commission announced its plans for disposing of the historic debris salvaged from the rebuilding job. Beginning next month, souvenir hunters may order a whole list of mementos by mail. Samples: 25? for a piece of hand-split lath; $100 for enough bricks to face an ordinary fireplace. In addition, the commission was preparing special souvenir kits containing chunks of wood suitable for gavel-making or a handmade nail and a piece of stone which could be set in plastic for a paperweight. Each item will be accompanied by a metal tag certifying that it is a true...
After months of chasing and capturing atomic spies, the FBI finally made an inevitable announcement last week: its Denver agents had arrested an atomic souvenir collector. The G-Men announced the gist of the case with their usual deadpan gravity. The accused was a 28-year-old University of Denver metallurgical engineer named Sanford Lawrence Simons. He had admitted that while working at Los Alamos in 1946 he had stolen a pinhead-sized piece of plutonium and kept it buried under his house for four years...
Taking his ease in a Canterbury cinema, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, slipped off his left gaiter, absentmindedly went off without it. Upon his return next day he learned that souvenir hunters had snipped off five of the buttons. "It's all right," the dean wanly told the apologetic manager. "It's always happening...
...Germans took Paris, Picasso had fled to the south of France. Shortly afterwards he decided to return. "Simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me," says Picasso, who was considered too valuable to molest, even though Resistance leaders sometimes met at his studio. "When they left I presented them with souvenir postcards of Guernica...