Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hemingway memorabilia also set new marks. A series of 30 letters and cards to his parents during the years 1920 to 1928 brought $65,000. The Bible he carried as an ambulance driver in World War I fetched $4,500. One dealer even paid $2,750 for two pages of nine-year-old Ernest's scrawl describing how a clam in his school aquarium caught a goldfish by the tail...
...Certainly, Fred Cowan showed disturbing similarities to Kiritsis. Both were lifelong losers. The balding Cowan was unable to make friendships with girls, contented himself instead with gun collecting and muscle building. Cowan's attic bedroom was jammed with rifles, pistols, bayonets, hand grenades and a collection of Nazi memorabilia. The muscle-bound six-footer had his arms tattooed with iron crosses and Nazi eagles. He joined the National States Rights Party, a Georgia-based brigade of bigots (see box following page). "There is nothing lower than blacks and Jews unless it's the police who protect them," Cowan...
Then, Haley says, the history of the family should be written and a copy sent to every member. Haley encourages youths to rummage through attics, basements and closets for illuminating family letters and other memorabilia. "It's a simple thing," says Haley. "But the existence of a written history gives the family something it never had before. There is an almost miraculous effect once it exists." Finally, Haley urges, "have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives...
...every family endures as it packs to move. Vans pulled in and out of the White House, grounds. The family's cold-weather clothes were ticketed for their condominium in Vail, Colo., their warm-weather togs for a rented house in Palm Springs, Calif., and presidential documents and memorabilia for the University of Michigan. At one point, surveying all that remained to be done, Betty Ford joked to an aide, "I think I'm going to have to call Mrs. Carter and say I just can't make the deadline and would she mind staying...
...mind works in angular ways, full of ricochets and inventions." Hughes quickly discovered that structured interviews were not the best way to explore Rauschenberg's multifaceted personality and past. The artist supplied his own approach. He took out catalogues containing his extensive collections of art memorabilia and souvenirs; as he turned the pages, he talked. "The art of the '70s," Hughes notes, "is eclectic: video, earthworks, landscape and straight painting are all part of it. Rauschenberg has done an extraordinary number of things with his life and his art. He is the great model of the multiplicity...