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Collectors and souvenir hunters have always been inspired by strange and esoteric impulses. A lock of Napoleon's hair, which even Josephine would not have given a sou for, can today fetch upwards of $200. A frying pan used by Britain's "Great Train Robbers" when they were hiding out in a Midlands farmhouse in 1963 recently went for $120. Even so, the mania for Hitleriana is an especially puzzling phenomenon. In the past year, sales of Third Reich mementos have begun to rise sharply. A few of the collectors are old diehard Nazis like a former...
THIS is deplorable," sniffed the Belgian Minister of Agriculture. "Call the police," demanded his German counterpart. "That cow is dribbling on the papers," shouted an aide. "Get it away from the desk!" The cow merely mooed and left a steaming souvenir on the elegant green carpet of the oak-paneled conference room in the European Community's Congress Palace in Brussels...
Later, during lengthy interviews with MacGraw and her husband in Manhattan, Cronin was further impressed, as was Researcher Michele Whitney, by Ali's essential simplicity and lack of glitter, the Teddy bears she adores, the wonderful junk that she collects-such things as silver-and-gold fans inscribed "Souvenir of the 1897 Exposition." To Film Critic Stefan Kanfer, who has been following Ali's career since she first appeared in Goodbye Columbus, her sudden leap to stardom is a classic example of "cinema inventing its own faces. When it needed the gritty reflection of urban reality, it found...
...President was obviously delighted and moved as he continued the farewell ceremony, presenting to Moynihan a replica of his Cabinet chair as a souvenir. Nixon reached into his own pocket for the $500 to buy the chair...
...merry-go-rounds are mostly idle; the train rarely makes the rounds of its tracks any more; the volume of mail trickled, then was shut off when the substation closed a year ago. Santa Claus, Calif., today is just an ordinary tourist attraction and the owner of a souvenir shop makes sure the tourists get what they want: "Here's a charm with California on one side, Santa Claus on the other. Kills two birds with one stone, and it's sterling...