European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 13 the stars and stripes Friday january 31,1986 column is  today s crossword history lost in an antique show by Ellen Goodman the photo album covered in worn Green velvet and held Roget lick Wilh Ornale brass hinges Luy in a Jumble of lace and candlesticks on an Aid Lilii. La was. Like every thing else in Ilie Hall a piece of used goods. Inc refuse of previous owners. Or if you prefer an antique. I of Pencil the album inc Way someone in the Market fora new Home  read the real estate listings was this property something thai would suit my family 1 thought no Mare ofic former owners than i might have thought of inc family who planted the wee in the Back Yard or added the dormers to the roof of a House Tor Sale fluid ii turned out that this place was still inhabited. There were people living in this picture Book i hair Story Frozen like their images in  Spry began with a pair of wedding portraits husband and wife in profile carefully marked ims. The Ali Din thai followed showed one christening after another Aad then another allowed by the images of these children growing up there were pictures of Shoul and graduation por traits of one rowing Leam. And another of a Lacrosse team. Two sons were shown grinning in their full Mili tary uniforms and i Hen at Home again and finally mar ried with their own children. Standing in the Middle of this antique show i Felt like ii voyeur to was As if i had happened upon a diary while touring a House and just oui of curiosity read it. I put the album Back on the table. To have placed my own family in hut Book. I would have had to evict theirs. I was t ready Lodi Lodge hem from existence. At the same Lime 1 him the curator of an older collection. Through death divorce remarriage relocation 1 have inherited the snapshot of earlier generations the portraits of their weddings inc albums Elk cd from larger houses. It is this family collection that has grown less familiar Over Lime. I cannot name All the Brothers and is sirs lined up Bude my girlish grand quilter. My Dpi Tohler does t know Oil the cousins an the Beach with me. There Are strangers among the snapshots. Like Distant relatives Al a family reunion. Need name tags to know Hirw we Ore connected my predicament As both collector and curator is not unusual once it was Jusi royally who had their histories recorded just the Rich who had their image reproduced. Now in is the rare american without some record of his or her family  handling that Green velvet Plfaum j Rea fed How easily one generation s memories May become the Nam Genera lion s clutter. The Antiques for rate in this Hall were heirlooms without heirs or old things that did t fit into new lives. They were the leftovers of broken Homes. So too were these photo graphs. Album was created by someone trying to Pluck one family from Lime and from the multitude. It was created by some one writing a personal history out of snapshots. Bui 50 years later there was nobody left who cured. How sad to see such a family estate fall into the hands of is rangers cd Ballon a Tom  poll hush hush hash on Troub makers by Russel Baker i a jail men met secretly in Washington. They were he ii Ash settling committee of the National Security Council. Their Job was los enc the hash of foreign troublemakers. Since i heir work was top secret the press always referred to them As the hush hush hash settling Coromis  the chairman opened the meeting by pointing to a map of Norih Africa. He said who can guess the name of n troublemaker in this part of inc world who needs his hash settled Qaddafi the Man from inc Treasury said the other members laughed."gaddafi1" said the chairman. What kind of name is Qaddafi has anyone else Here heard of this Maddan the Treasury Man was abashed. If the press had seen him he would have been referred to As an  hush hush hash  or possibly a hush hush abashed hash  said he had read about a Qaddafi in the new York times. Washington Post Christian science Monitor and inc new yorker  chair Wil said  provoking the while House a n to interrupt.  he said or the press will say an abashed hash settler was Lush pushed by the hush hush hash settling  Pentagon Man spoke while the committee quibbles about a nonentity named Qaddafi the insufferable Qadhafi s hash becomes More insolent by the  whose hash did you say1?" asked he Cia Man Qadhafi s hash said the Pentagon Man. Don t you read the Wall Street journal and . News & world report if you did you d know Aboul  the Cia Man wanted to flush with anger but did  feared the Pentagon Man would teak to the press which old Call him a hushed hush hush hash settler. I could imagine the Pentagon Man leaking a Story about crushing a Cia Man who had t heard of Qadhafi. He could even foresee the headline " expert crushes flushed hush hush hash settler so calmly he said if the military want to Settle the hash of one Qadhafi let them first answer a question  the Roum Felt silent. A Sally said Tuccia. Man. Enough of this Mush said the suite  Man. While the committee argued about Qaddafi and Qadhafi he said there was an obnoxious Man Well known to All readers of the economist who was a isl begging to have his hash settled. Name him everyone shouted. "quad.dnfi," said the Man from state. Bosh said the Man from the Justice department. You cookie pushing diplomats come in Here saying we speak Mush then you Point a to some British foreign office villain named i Qaddafi gentlemen said the chairman if this gels to the press they will say that cookie Pusher s Mush was bashed in a hush hush hash  All eight men wattled to do something Brash but no one dared. Suppose the press said you were Spla Shily Brash about hush hush hash settling decisions. Men had been forced to resign and go Back to har Vard for less. So All contented themselves with glowering until tempers settled. I move we forget Qaddafi Qadhafi and Qaddafi. And go after this fellow khad Afy i be rend about in the daily news said1 the Man from the Justice department. What docs the daily news know from foreign policy asked the Cia Man. For foreign policy you need time the weekly newsmagazine and time fingers our target for us gentlemen. His name is Qaddafi no no said the chairman. The financial times has made the same mistake in London but it s not cad a i that s such an ugly Case. It s  everyone looked amazed. Could the chairman Possi Bly be right yes gentlemen said inc chairman. Garaffi is our Man. Not Qaddafi. 1 have in straight from the times of ," said the White House Man the Boston her Ald is wrong in suggesting that the Man who is itching for a Good hash settling b named  vice president George Bush wanted to say that As a Reader of both Newsweek and the Village voice he thought they ought to go after that fellow Qaddafi hut he did t. He was afraid the papers would say Mush hush hash Bash Bunch squashes Bush s  his York Tom by eocene Sheffer 9 parting spot 12 Ford Flop waste 4 Aid s Mew York 10 fteoucntly11 san map Aua  19 play Fifthe Odds 21"caught youl"22 wrestling kind15 Small hat 54 9pock s 16 common portray Campus 55 archaic Wear 56 Dud g practices by take 20 Symbol of potshots Redum 8 teutonic ny9 two women actress 21 Doc s org. Avg. 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