Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week treat in 1951 that they pasted up a scrapbook of Jackie's curlicued drawings and rhymes and Lee's stories, which they entitled One Special Summer. "We are not the Bronte sisters," admits Lee in the foreword to the book, which has been discovered among family memorabilia and is being excerpted in the November Ladies' Home Journal. No, they are not. But their piercing candor made them memorable young tourists. Mischievous too. Jackie accompanied Lee to a singing lesson in Venice with one of Italy's foremost sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister...
...Hoover Museum one of the exhibits displays K'ang Hsi and Ming porcelains collected by Mrs. Hoover between 1899 and 1901 when Hoover, an engineer, (with what a government brochure calls "an international reputation as a `doctor of sick mines'") worked in China. At Independence, Truman's Masonic memorabilia are displayed with pictures of 14 other presidents who have been Masons. In the Eisenhower Museum the large collection of World War II weaponry and a sample of moon rock from the Apollo 12 mission are focal displays. In all of the museums, where trained specialists continually up-date and replace...
Such is her fascination with American politics that Correspondent Bonnie Angelo has covered the walls of her Washington home with a collection of 19th century memorabilia ranging from fraying presidential campaign handkerchiefs to a pair of dinner plates from Zachary Taylor's White House. Angelo professes no political ambitions, but in a reverse twist, some of the presidential wives she has known are confessed journalism buffs who have devoted long hours of their private time to chronicling the history they watched and often helped make. "Lady Bird Johnson recorded her experiences almost every night," recalls Angelo, "and Pat Nixon...
Sterling (original name: Bruno Zwerling) began amassing a collection of memorabilia that now includes four filing cabinets stuffed with 13 years of Rogers' columns and other writings. He decided that Rogers' country wit and wisdom "deserved to be read again." Sterling keys his selections to current headlines, but does not try to edit out now obscure references or names. He believes that the vintage flavor of the columns adds to their basic appeal: "When people read Will Rogers, they realize that much of what we are going through has happened before, that we've already lived through...
...traditions and rummage through the holdings of Harvard Uni- versity and come up with a concise sampling of memorabilia would be cause for head scratching under nearly any circumstances. Yet "Introducing Harvard University" an exhibit opening this week in Tokyo's Isetan department store, will try-through a scant 1741tems-to portray one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions to the Japanese...