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...late Edith Wharton's richly furnished villa at Hyères on the Riviera will be sold at public auction next month...
...Government contended that its 1911 dissolution of the old American Tobacco trust had merely changed the form of the tobacco industry without changing its practices. The companies were charged with controlling the auction markets at which tobacco is sold, with agreeing not to compete for the same grade of tobacco at the same time. They were also charged with price-fixing to consumers, by agreeing on wholesale prices for cigarets...
Gimbels has several big advantages over the auctioneers. It can regularly sell art on credit and on the installment plan. Its tremendous turnover permits lower commissions than the auction galleries. Most important: plain people take to the fixed price tags and businesslike counter displays of department-store art as naturally as they would to a furniture or clothing sale. Said Salesman Hammer...
...Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess Miguel (Anita Stewart) de Braganza plans to auction off household effects that include a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait. In brief, what with death and taxes...
...Among children, adult games like contract, auction and pinochle are nearly as popular as pig, pounce and old maid...