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Unusual sales: Mrs. McCormick's diamond necklace and breastplate-$15,000; 24 leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...evening Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 51. who delivered the quintuplets, telephoned his brother Dr. William Allan Dafoe. 40. Toronto obstetrician: "Can you come out this way? I need your moral support...
...better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register emotion convincingly and is much better in an exotic role than in the one she is forced to play in this picture. Very well cast in her difficult role is Elizabeth Allan, who plays the nurse silently in love with the young interne. Jean Hersholt, as the eminent surgeon, and Otto Kruger, as the struggling practitioner stuck with a wife when a young interne, both turn in good performances. "Men in White" should certainly be seen by anyone contemplating a career...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...
...Allan Roy Dafoe, 51, graduate of the University of Toronto, has been practicing at Callander for 26 years, is the district's medical officer and coroner. Obstetrics has always been a large part of his practice among the prolific French-Canadians. His youngest mother was 13, his oldest 63. Once he delivered a two-headed monster. One of his patients has borne 23 children, only one of whom has died, and that one, said Dr. Dafoe last week when he had an opportunity to relax in the wicker easy-chair in his library, "was dead at birth...