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Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
...with Sears, Roebuck for half a century, have long been generous supporters of the university. Onetime Chairman Julius Rosenwald was responsible for Sears's acquisition of the Britannica in 1920, when it was in such bad financial straits that its priceless plates were about to be sold at auction. What made the deal especially interesting was what Bob Hutchins did not tell about...
Hard Times. In Henry, Ill, county authorities took a look at the state of local affairs, decided to auction off the poorhouse...
Settled at last were the claims of Manhattan (Kans.) creditors against Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco & husband. The local suits were all dismissed and possible auction of such Vanderbiltiana as the family coat of arms and Father Reginald's gold polo trophies was avoided...
...house for her, said Elaine Barrie, is the late John Barrymore's $33,000 mansion in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air. She got it with a divorce settlement in 1940, and will auction it off soon, move where she has "just enough room for myself, my two canaries and three dogs...