Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earth Day. They picked a dovish political science professor, Hubert Humphrey. After listening to a bombardment of obscenities from 50 antiwar protesters, H.H.H. objected to the language, suggested that their tongues needed a bath in Lifebuoy. Pacified, the pacifists wound up touring the Humphrey house and inspecting his memorabilia...
...exhibit of memorabilia on display at the Hallmark Gallery in New York includes a "Phooey on Dewey" button, a collection of walking sticks, and the 1901 Independence, Mo., high school yearbook showing Harry and Bess in their caps and gowns. A saltier item among the souvenirs on loan from the Harry S. Truman Library is the ex-President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin...
Hamilton had auctioned Jackie's mail before (one letter went for $3,000 in 1964) and planned to put the latest on the block in March. As he routinely does whenever he receives Kennedy memorabilia, Hamilton sent copies of the letters to Washington Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire. She, in turn, called Gilpatric, who immediately checked his file cabinet. "They have obviously been purloined by someone with larceny in their heart," he said...
When Einstein died in 1955, he left 25 cabinets filled with personal memorabilia. These documents, Holton writes in the American Journal of Physics, include a number of letters in which Einstein speaks of the influence of the experiment on the formulation of his theory: this influence is always described in such words as "negligible," "rather indirect" or "not decisive." Furthermore, toward the end of his life, Einstein appears to have become increasingly determined to demolish the myth. In an unpublished letter written only a year before his death, Einstein said: "I even do not remember if I knew...