Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where the clocks were frozen on the afternoon of April...
...Beatles T shirts-and one genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says, "I'd rather play a bad guy than a hero...
...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...
...near-fetish heights--for 289 pages, you're on the verge of uncontrollable laughter. Divided into six parts, this manual provides for all possible situations and exigencies of the social rat race: "Social Climbing," "Extinctions and Mortalities," "Vilenesses Various," "In Pursuit of Comfortable Habits," "Perils and Precautions," "Mischief and Memorabilia." The atmosphere is English manor house, gently decadent. Catalogued are innumerable pointers, all that the debonaire and naughty aristocrat must do to succeed is meticulously explained. There are rules and tips concerning accent improvement, farting in public, horsemanship, ass-kissing, being a big shot, heaping abuse, shabby people...
...Shields. It celebrates Constable's 200th birthday and is the largest showing of his work ever. For the first time, one can see the whole man under one roof-from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes he painted in the 1820s and '30s. These include The Hay Wain, The Leaping Horse, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, Hadleigh Castle. In them Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what Wordsworth had done to it in verse...