What WAS the controversy and why was Clinton and Blair involved? Was it
something to do with getting the toys back to the UK? Is this some 'Elgin
Marbles' styled controversy??

Paul
>Hi -
>
>Pooh and friends are at the Donnell Library, across the street from
>the Museum of Modern Art on West 53 Street in Manhattan.  Our mayor
>used this controversy as another chance to be a big shot, but that's
>besides the point.  The real story is that this Pooh is not really the
>one that was the model for the drawings by Ernest Shepard; he used his
>own child's bear, now lost, as the real model.  The drawings for the
>other animals, though, were based on the animals at the library.
>
>President Clinton and PM Blair also alluded to the controversy when
>Blair visited NYC.
>
>Stanley Greenberg
>
>


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