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...bulk of the purse money, 300 million spectators in more than 26 countries will see the fight. A successful theatrical agent who cheerily admits that "I really don't know the first thing about boxing," Perenchio is not missing a trick; after the bout is over, he hopes to auction off the fighters shoes, trunks, robes and gloves "If a movie studio can auction off Judy Garland's red slippers," he says, "these things ought to be worth something. You've got to throw away the book on this fight. This one transcends boxing?it's a show business spectacular...
...established in London. "France . . . will regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word message was written had disappeared. Then, four days after De Gaulle's death, an unidentified Frenchman offered it to a Paris auction expert named Pierre de St. Cyr for $100,000, with the stipulation that the sale be secret and that it be made to a foreigner. Shocked at this unpatriotic profiteering, De St. Cyr informed Delon, who sent for a friend from Buenos Aires. Equipped with his foreign passport...
...currently selling close to 500 belts a week through East Coast boutiques and Manhattan's Bloomingdale's. Socialite Ethel Scull buckled one over a black-jersey jumpsuit, appeared at a black-tie party looking less bonny than Clyde; Model Carole Mallory wore hers to an art auction and was an instant succes fou-she got immediate attention from the security guards...
People cannot decide which patients are most socially "useful" and committees tend to pick the patient who can best afford the cost of surgery, he said. "An auction destroys the idea of life as a priceless pearl," said Calabresi...
This time bidding opened at 300,000 guineas ($756,000) and just two minutes and 15 seconds later it closed at 2,200,000 guineas-$5,544,000, the highest price ever paid for any work of art. The expensive transaction eclipsed both the previous public-auction record, $2.3 million in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, and the record for a private sale, an estimated $5,000,000 that was paid in 1967 for Leonardo's Ginevra dei Bend, by Washington's National Gallery of Art. The buyer...