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...author deliberately, and sometimes perversely, provides a fragmentary narrative. Huge pieces of the brothers' lives are left out, and odd bits are included: the agreeable information, for instance, that Peregrine finds an auction house where he purchases a pair of Henry James' pants...
...Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful bidders claimed their prizes, however, hotel employees dressed as commandos leaped from the balconies to rescue the maidens...
...wine lovers around the world, a momentous annual ritual is the wine auction in the Burgundian city of Beaune. Technically, it is a charity sale: for the past 127 years, the auction has been the principal source of support for the Hospices de Beaune, a hospital that has been in continuous operation since 1443. In practice, the sale of wine from its Premier and Grand Cru vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy...
Emerald City it wasn't, but the chandeliered ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills held treasures of its own last week. Up for auction were 423 possessions of the late Judy Garland. Among the items on the block: Garland's copy of the musical arrangement of Over the Rainbow, a pair of loaded dice given to her by Humphrey Bogart (purchased by Actress Lily Tomlin for $1,200), Judy's The Wizard of Oz scrapbook, and the beaded silk jacket she wore at Carnegie Hall. The highest sum -$60,000-was shelled...
...million debt owed to the Cleveland Electricity Illuminating Co. The privately owned utility sells power to the public Municipal Light Co., which resells it to 46,000 customers. Last spring C.E.I, got federal marshals to begin tagging pieces of city property for sale at auction to satisfy the bill. The private utility has offered to buy out Muny Light, but Kucinich has refused, arguing that it provides a competitive check that curbs rate hikes by C.E.I...