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...months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with all its recreations to be put on the auction block-which in this case was also an execution block. If the cause of Juan Andreu Almazan was dead, it was partly because Mexico has developed very legal means for political assassination...
Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina...
...Baer, to $1,900 Lady Sydenham. Then the professionals boosted it to $2,100, but gave up the struggle when Manhattan Furrier I. J. Fox offered $2,200. Graciously refusing to accept the platina fox, Dealer Fox suggested that it be given to the American Red Cross to auction again, stayed after the show to present his check for $2,200 to the four Norwegians...
...auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated...
...example of a one-penny postage stamp, black on magenta, printed by hand in 1856 by the stamp-starved inhabitants of British Guiana. Seller: the widow of Plush Manufacturer Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y., whose husband, after World War I, is said to have bought it at auction in Paris for $32,500. Buyer: an anonymous private collector...