Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides dreaming up seemingly endless new series for his membership,* Segel publishes a monthly magazine providing background about the memorabilia and produces medals for groups that use them as a fund-raising device. The White House Historical Association, for example, has offered members a series depicting U.S. First Ladies, and the U.S. Olympic Committee sold one celebrating sports events including the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Franklin's founder is still slightly mystified at the collector instinct that his operation has uncapped. Says he: "Some retired people wait for the new medal each month and call the neighbors...
...formidable figure. In 1961, while Georgia field director of the NAACP, he cleared a path through an angry white mob and led the first black coed into the University of Georgia; the image of Jordan shielding Charlayne Hunter from students screaming threats and obscenities remains among the indelible Southern memorabilia of the early 1960s...
Recently the brisk market in Hitler memorabilia has brought demands for the stamps' release. Two years ago Dr. Franz Sobek, then director of the State Printing Office, was set to sell the stamps to an anonymous collector for $250,000, a fraction more than 10 a stamp. But the Austrian Resistance Fighters objected to the idea that an official Austrian body should profit from "that face," and Dr. Sobek, who was president of the Resistance, quickly agreed. Sobek has since retired, and Austrian stamp dealers as well as lawyers for two important foreign buyers, said to be an American...
...well," Diaghilev said of the 27-year-old Igor Stravinsky. "He is a man on the eve of celebrity." When celebrity came, Stravinsky had a long day of it: a stormy dawn of controversy, a high blaze of creative influence, a waning afternoon of waspish polemics and high-priced memorabilia. Last week the night finally fell, as Stravinsky died in Manhattan at 88.* It was the end of six decades of dominance, in which he had incalculably shaped the musical thought of generations to come. It was the end, too, of what Conductor Colin Davis called "a chain of great...
...secretaries at a maximum annual cost of $11,934 each. Although a few Congressmen privately complained that Speaker McCormack's going-away present was unprecedented and lavish, they might well have been heartened by the news that 79-year-old McCormack plans to give his papers and memorabilia to Boston University, at least sparing the taxpayers the expense of a McCormack library...