Word: memorabilia
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...Winning bid of Peter Siegel, a memorabilia collector, for the contract that sent Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees...
...China races toward the industrial and military glory of which Mao could only dream, the man remains as well liked as ever. His visage beams benignly across Beijing's Tiananmen Square, long lines of visitors creep past his preserved corpse nearby, and restaurants are decorated with Mao memorabilia. Perhaps in a time of galloping economic modernization and social upheaval, Chinese crave the reassuring continuity provided by a larger-than-life figure from their recent past. Reading this atom bomb of a book, in the unlikely event it gets published in China, would surely cure them of that...
Last week's verdicts ended an eleven-month trial in which Heidemann claimed that he had been misled by Kujau, a dealer in Nazi memorabilia. The court believed but had no concrete evidence to show that Heidemann had kept almost half the money. The journalist drew a prison term of 56 months for fraud. Kujau was sentenced to 54 months for fraud and forgery. Both were freed pending an appeal. The judge criticized Stern for the "bunker mentality" that encouraged editors to print their "scoop" without first establishing the diaries' authenticity...
...exhibit or another to illustrate his story. During regular hours the museum is packed with schoolchildren in uniform, pressing their noses against the windows of the cases; chattering; some horseplay from the bigger boys. On display is all that became of Hiroshima once the bomb dropped, along with historical memorabilia such as the directive from Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander in chief of the U.S. Strategic Air Force, ordering that the city be bombed; a large photo of the A-bomb known as "Little Boy," looking like a sea mammal in profile; messages of resolve or condolence from distinguished visitors...
While Graff will hand in his opus on Thursday, the memorabilia will be a constant reminder of the time he and his thesis shared together...