Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upstairs in her Georgetown house, surrounded by the memorabilia of her family, Mrs. Robert Taft waited for the rites to begin on Capitol Hill. She had been with her husband through all his defeats -when Willkie beat him at the 1940 convention, when Dewey beat him at the 1948 convention, and finally, when Eisenhower beat him at Chicago last year. Taft had always lost the greatest, most venturesome battles of his career. Now he had lost this one, but without...
...Ford family also formally opened to historians an amazing collection of personal possessions which Old Henry had gathered at Fair Lane, his huge, grey stone mansion, not far from the Rouge plant. After Mrs. Ford died in 1950, the family sent a crew of archivists to look through the memorabilia stored there. They were astounded by what they found. Some of the 55 rooms in the mansion were so crammed with clocks, rare books, cameras, music boxes, files, unpublished photographs and crates of papers that the doors could hardly be opened...
Last week the members of the McGuffey Society inspected the fruits of nearly half a century's search for McGuffey memorabilia. They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets. The books in the collection, largely gathered by Dean Minnich, ran to nearly 400 editions, including one Japanese translation and some Southern reprints from Reconstruction days...
...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
...mention of that man," says Hollon A. Farr, curator of the Memorabilia Room in Yale's Sterling Library, "only brings disgrace upon the name of Yale. In this day and age, almost anything can be discussed as a joke. Nothing is at all sacred...