Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over-and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...from New York City, thinks he has located a former mistress of President Harding, who died in office in 1923. The suspect lives in Los Angeles, happily undetected by the handful of Harding specialists who are Weiner's competitors. If the old lady has kept letters and other memorabilia from her once illustrious lover, and if Weiner can get his mitts on them, his future in the groves of academe will be palmy indeed...
...atmosphere of a great Harvard like the old Cronin's." Bossert said, adding that he likes browsing through Harvard memorabilia such as old oars and 1904 football team pictures...
...finest tradition of intelligence gathering, the week's most sensational disclosure came from a garbage can. According to the Washington Post, an unidentified collector of campaign memorabilia had gone to Reagan headquarters in Arlington, Va., after the election to seek souvenirs. He was told that everything had been tossed out, but he was welcome to rummage in the trash cans. He filled a box with a batch of papers and last week showed some of them to the Post. They provided ostensible verification of a report by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett in his new book on Reagan...
...cover headlines read, THE FORGERY: KONRAD KUJAU, THE MAN WHO DELIVERED "HITLER'S DIARIES." The menacing photo was of Kujau, 44, an East German emigre and a Stuttgart-based dealer in documents and military memorabilia who sold the diaries to Stern and is suspected of having forged them. The story of his bizarre behavior, and of the Keystone Kops-style thriller that he enacted with the magazine's go-between, Reporter Gerd Heidemann, may have left readers asking how Heidemann, and his free-spending Stern supervisors, could have been fooled by anyone so preposterous. Kujau, who since...