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...Auctioneer for the event will be Jean McCormick '51. Prior to the auction articles will be on display from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Cabot game room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Spoils Will Go Before Block | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

Loot piled up in Radcliffe "lost and found" closets during the past two years will pass over the auction counter at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cabot Hall game room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Spoils Will Go Before Block | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

...auction, held by the Student Government Association, will benefit the Radcliffe Student Government Grant-inAid fund. Student council members will have charge of carting the articles from the dormitories and Fay House to Cabot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Spoils Will Go Before Block | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: On the Block | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...makes a wire recording of everything he says on the block, refunds the buyer's cash if he has misrepresented an animal in any way. At 64 the colonel is still going strong, this week drove 200 miles to preside over an auction near Denver. Says he: "If I could have looked ahead and seen the long trips, and sleepless nights, I might have thought better of that walking cultivator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: On the Block | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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