Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfying week In which the Cleveland Press had run a series of touching stories about a Hong Kong reunion it had arranged between soldiers serving in Viet Nam and their Cleveland families. Yet Seltzer had tears in his eyes much of last Friday as he cleared out the last memorabilia from his office and bade his staff farewell. After half a century with the Scripps-Howard Press, and 38 years as its editor, "Mr. Cleveland" was reluctantly retiring...
...occasions when the Abbey is not crowded, it is a tranquil haven. At other times, it is an album of remembrance littered with memorabilia in stone, a storehouse of history. The historian Macaulay called the Abbey a "temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of a thousand years lie buried." It is Valhalla, Arlington Cemetery, the tombs on Red Square, a combination of Paris' Pantheon and the Montparnasse Cemetery. After nine centuries, it remains a silent place full of lost hope and renewed energy...
Partly because he cunningly let others take the credit (and the blame) for his mephitic machinations, partly because he carefully left few letters or other memorabilia, a full-length biography has never before been written. Author Sarnoff, 46, a Wall Street broker by profession, pays little mind to literary style or organization, but has done his historical homework thoroughly...
Another method, especially for a huge, not particularly good musical, is lavish promotion. For Baker Street, Producer Alexander Cohen primed the pump with $50,000. He stationed red-coated, busy-topped actors on the sidewalk in front of the box office, filled the lobby with Sherlock Holmes memorabilia, and transformed the theater facade into a brick house with cutouts of second-story men and assassins climbing ropes and ladders. Result: during Easter week, Baker Street set a Broadway grossing record...
...walk-through illuminated by 500 photographs, after which visitors find themselves surrounded by 32 charming Churchill paintings, which amply demonstrate that he was no mere Sunday painter.* Also on display is a reconstruction of his study at Chartwell, and more than $1,000,000 worth of Churchill memorabilia...