Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marina Operator Robert Hart, who had a cottage on the main island, has bought the hideaway for an undisclosed sum, promises to "keep it as it is." That's not quite what will happen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's old 165-ft. yacht Potomac. Up for auction, the vessel which the wartime President called his "Shangri-La," went for $55,000 to none other than Elvis Presley. Did that mean the Potomac would soon be rock 'n' rolling to guitars as well as waves? No, said Elvis. It goes to the F.D.R.-founded March of Dimes...
...statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone I don't want all this stuff bought at auction by some thin-lipped banker for his home in Peekskill. Not that I don't like bankers. I do. I just don't like Peekskill...
Almost every French Rothschild lives surrounded by a museumlike collection of priceless paintings, period furniture, irreplaceable tapestries. Drawing only from Rothschild collections, Sotheby's or Parke-Bernet could hold an auction every week for a year- and each sale would make news. Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon...
...becoming Prime Minister, he shook his head and explained: "After I had dipped fairly freely into my first bottle of port, my father said to me: 'You know, the most important thing in life is to know when to stop.' " At the height of the leadership auction at the Tory conference in Blackpool this month, a reporter goaded Home: "Aren't you catching the fever?" Replied the Foreign Secretary: "Put your hand on my forehead, and feel my pulse. You will find that both are quite normal...
...hidden work by an unknown Flemish master which went on view last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (see opposite page). Preserved for many years in the seldom-used Paris house of a French banker, the yard-high triptych first reappeared in public at a 1962 auction. A Manhattan art syndicate bought it for $346,550, a huge sum for an anonymous work. Presumably, the Boston museum paid even more...