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Great things came out of Section 35 last Saturday, including a check for $14,800, autographed by Mr. Julian Cohen of Brookline, which nearly bowled over astonished collectors and won the Brown-game football handily. All other opposition in the auction crumbled before Mr. Cohen's contribution, and never brought itself appreciably above the $1000 mark...
Encouraged by their success at the Princeton game, the H.A.A. will conduct another bend auction between the halves of the Brown game tomorrow...
...month ago 2,000 people gathered in the fabled gardens of Immergrun to see the Schwab castle sold at auction. A spokesman for a group called the Friends of St. Francis stepped up and bid $32,500 for the castle and 240 acres of the 940-acre estate. It was the only bid. Real-estate men, though tempted by such a bargain, held their peace. When the castle went to the lone bidder, the spectators cheered...
...longtime fixture of Newport society; and John C. Fremont, 62, retired Navy captain, grandson of famed frontiersman General John C. ("The Pathfinder") Fremont; in Manhattan. Widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, she owns the palatial "Seaview Terrace," famed $1,000,000 Newport showplace (twice put on auction, once for taxes, twice withdrawn for lack of sizable bids...
...local post office hired extra help, they still could not deliver all the thousands of Hamsun volumes winging home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When a woman shouted "five ore" (U.S. equivalent: one cent), another, to pacify the auctioneer, bid one crown (about 25?), won the edition and promptly mailed it back...