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...amount of stuff available from the retired supersonic service, it's a wonder that British Airways didn't terminate it sooner due to a lack of cups and plates. Travel is an area of collecting that can involve large sums of money (a Concorde nose cone was sold at auction for $550,000 to a U.S.-based Concorde fanatic). But aside from their financial value, many of the better-known collections form amusing slices of stratospheric life. Take American Steve Silberberg's (mercifully unsoiled) collection of airsick bags, boasting 1,279 mint-condition receptacles, including some from outer space. "Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly And Buy | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...really was not concerned with the money. I wanted it to be a fun way to get the word out,” says Lauren H. Fifield ’06, who spearheaded the date auction. “It was so much more than we had hoped...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Homes, Courtesy of Lowell | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Fifield entered the auction herself and her decision literally paid off. She raked in $105 after stripping down to the lingerie and pillow fighting on stage with Annie R. Shawn ’07, who herself raised...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Homes, Courtesy of Lowell | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

Emcee Will Luera, a member of Improv Boston, says he thought that antics of the auction participants helped entice the crowd to spend freely, noting the pillow fighting, the cowgirl dance of Emily F. Stevens ’05 and Kimberly A. Gould ’05, and the Zoolander-esque walk-off between Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Iain D. M. Bridges...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Homes, Courtesy of Lowell | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...date auction itself brings out great energy. Combine that with a great cause, and it makes contributing much easier,” says Luera. “It was easy to ride the momentum...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Homes, Courtesy of Lowell | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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