Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shafter," an early vintage Chevrolet owned by five Whitman Hall residents, will join girls' clothes of an unspecified variety in an auction sponsored by Radditudes in the Radcliffe Yard tomorrow at noon...
...left home (NBC) in 1942, it had nothing to wear but castoffs-speeches, discussions, classical music-from its flashy big sister, NBC's Red Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its first president. His first job: to auction off "the dullest, speechingest network you ever heard," a 116-station property that brought in a slim $14 million in 1942. It took Mark a year and a half to find a buyer...
...late Thomas A. Edison, in a penciled memo sold at auction for $230 last week in Philadelphia: "As to the atom, I do not believe it has any internal energy as claimed. Everyone else believes...
Sold by the beauteous Duchess of Kent: household special-effects accumulated by the late Duke. The Duchess, now in smaller quarters, has no room for them. At auction in London, a Sèvres china dessert service brought ?609, a pair of porcelain vases ?1,260, a walnut settee ?1,785. Total receipts...
...took the tuxedoed auctioneer 2¾ hours to sell 60 sleek thoroughbreds for a record $1,553,500. The setting was impressive; a pale half-moon hung over the infield at Santa Anita; there were as many rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...