Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprising and inquisitive art expert from Christie's auction house, David Carritt, 37, a protégé of the late Bernard Berenson, followed up a report that a French international banker, who owned a London town house around the turn of the century, had bought and installed five Tiepolos, which, he believes, once graced the Paris home of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild. "I'm always looking for Tiepolos," says Carritt, who visited the house, owned since 1923 by Egypt and now the United Arab Republic's embassy. In a twinkling, Carritt called the overhead oils authentic...
...Torpedoman Second Class Jack Kirksey Kennedy wrote four letters. "If a captain is fortunate," said the first, "he finds one man in his crew who contributes more than his share. Jack Kirksey was that man." Last week the letters brought $9,500 in Manhattan, highest price yet paid at auction for a memento of the late President...
...customers' new needs, thus forming the core of the new market. It is now dominated by seven firms, but the Big Three are Blyth & Co., First Boston Corp. and Weeden & Co., all in Manhattan. Actually, the exchanges and the third market are quite different. While they are public auction places for company shares, it operates through a series of private, negotiating transactions, publishes no price quotations and has no central authority...
...Like an Auction. Other teams have taken worse drubbings, but never the Bears. "Our offense did poorly, our defense did poorly," raged Papa Bear George Halas, 69. "I apologize to the fans, and I promise-it won't happen again." Maybe not. But if the Bears or anybody else are going to stop the Colts this year, they are going to have to stop Johnny Unitas first. At 31, in his ninth pro season, Quarterback Unitas once again is demonstrating that he is the finest passer in the game, and maybe -as Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi...
...ball without his contact lenses. No matter. Unitas stepped into the pocket and-plop!-laid the ball squarely in Berry's outstretched hands for a touchdown. A field goal, a Bear fumble, another Unitas touchdown pass, and the score began to mount like prices at an Atlantic City auction. In the third quarter, Unitas flipped a 27-yd. pass to make it 31-0. Then he pulled off his helmet and let Substitute Gary Cuozzo take over...