Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just one more note on Pat Smith's performance last weekend...
...raiders left a note which read, "Jack the Robber Strikes...
...lighter note, Russell patted himself on the back for walking "with kings--with Spanish King Juan Carlos, with Vice President George Bush at the Olympics and with presidential candidate the Rev Jesse Jackson--and still keeping touch with the common people...
What makes the collection unique is its remarkable organization. A card catalog indexes all pictures by assignment, subject, quality of the print and pose (full face, profile, smiling, shaking hands). Cross-references note the backgrounds in each photo, as well as peripheral people and prominent objects: a birthday cake, a motorcycle, a puppy. Even so, some objects slip through the indexing net. Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel. There was no index listing for the plant, and hundreds of White House pictures...
...lionized Winston Churchill all his adult life. He has collected and read his published works many times over, and he frequently quotes the wartime British Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including its most memorable...