Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inheritance Tax. In Los Angeles, Mary L. Hoffman, 48, asked for a divorce from Husband No. 2 because he beat her with a jockey whip, a souvenir from Husband...
...pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...
...magazine, having been refused permission to use Chicago's Soldier Field, has contracted for Chicago Stadium (seating 20,000). The likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, Stan Kenton and Cool Comic Mort Sahl (see SHOW BUSINESS) will perform from a revolving stage, facing an audience decked out in souvenir Playboy jazz blazers and skimmers...
...SHOW THE FOLKS BACK HOME WHAT ISRAEL'S ELEVENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY WAS LIKE. The smaller type advertised a 7½-minute documentary film presenting the highlights of Israel's Independence Day celebrations for the benefit of visiting members of B'nai B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery last week: the background music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...various items of office equipment home as "mementos." Nobody ever objected to the practice until last month, when the legislature adjourned for the last time before Hawaii enters the Union. At that point the Honolulu Advertiser began nosing about, discovered just how enthusiastic the legislators had become in their souvenir collecting. Missing were $3,000 worth of territorial fountain pens, 150 sets (at over $50 a set) of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, $800 worth of rubber stamps, $190 in desk lamps, a $200 desk, 103 dictionaries at $6 each, 36 pairs of scissors, a vacuum cleaner...