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Reports the donation of a collection of manuscripts, letters, still and moving pictures and sound recordings of Ernest Hemingway to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner. Contents of the collection, including posthumously published works `Islands in the Stream' and `The Dangerous Summer'; Reasons for Hotchner's donation.

Reports on the printing of trading cards for police officers of Palm Beach County, Florida by `Lake Worth Herald' starting January 1996. Printing of the cards as the newspaper's public service; Reason for the trading card printing.

This article reports that a controversial debate dating back to 1828 has been re-ignited after the release of documents to the National Railway Museum in York, England. Included in the package of papers and memorabilia is a letter dated July 25, 1828 from engineer George Stephenson to fellow railway engineer Timothy Hackworth. The letter confirms that Stephenson was still using inefficient bellows to help power his engines more than six months after Hackworth introduced the breakthrough "blast pipe" technology that paved the way for reliable steam-hauled trains. Jane Hackworth-Young, grand-daughter of Timothy Hackworth, who donated his surviving papers to the museum, said that people simply assumed at the time that Stephenson had invented the blast pipe.

This article reports on the plan of food company General Mills to release a new line of Pokemon Rolls, fruit snacks made into a kid's collectible, in November 1999. The Pokemon product joins several other lines in the Betty Crocker snack cup board such as Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit by the Foot and Gushers. Pokemon, originally a Nintendo videogame, has become the No.1 trading card game in the U.S., reaching a broad kid demographic that includes 4- to 14-year-olds. Aside from offering kids punch-flavored foot-long fruit rolls packaged six to a box, the new line aims to capitalize on the trading card fever inspired by the Wizards of the Coast trading-card game by offering free cards inside. Aiming at both the younger set that identifies with the game's virtual-pet characters and older kids looking for videogame strategies, General Mills will feature 10 different character profiles on the metallic pouches enclosing the Pokemon Rolls. It will also offer trading card game tips on the backing paper of the actual product.

The article reports that the collectibles industry is slashing media spending for the second consecutive year due to high paper and postage costs. Responding to a combined 10 percent decline in sales for 1995, the industry's top five players have cut media advertising to $55.8 million for the January-April period. That compares with $116.9 million for the same period last year.

Focuses on the popularity of the O.J. Simpson rack cards featured in the `Outlook' periodical of Santa Monica, California. Theft of 800 copies of the periodical; Inflow of card requests and demands; Boost in sales of the paper by ten percent.