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...fight they did. For what the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet billed as the "sale of the century," dealers, museum directors and assorted collectors from all over the world converged on the British capital to join in a buying spree whose force startled even the more jaded veterans of the polished world of high-priced art. To be sure, nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon...
Before the auction, thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, strolled through the exhibition rooms to see the collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian...
...audience. Self-pity is one of the most powerful weapons in Chekhov's dramatic arsenal, but it only elicits sympathy for his characters because he engages the audience in personal self-pity. The playgoer is not necessarily devastated when the cherry orchard is sold at the auction block or by news that the three sisters never get to Moscow. But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made...
...throw shuttles of yarn back and forth across the warps of their looms with metronomic regularity. "More gray, more gray," barks Debbie Abbott, captain of the defending champion, team Minnie and the Hampmonters. Without missing a beat, her spinners turn to. The resulting shawl, complete and ready for auction in less than 2½ hrs., is sold for $75. Straight from producer to consumer...
...Auction in North Dakota