Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever had this urge to touch art, to be able to buy it, and even to be able to wear it, you might enjoy a T-Shirt Exposition and Auction at the Museum School, next to the MFA at 230 The Fenway. The T-shirts are painted, printed, stretched, stuffed, stitched, stained, fiberglassed and mounted. The shirts have been on silent auction since January 4 and those bids will close at noon, next Tuesday. Then, Tuesday evening (6:30-8:30 p.m.) at the MFA's lecture hall, the shirts will go on open auction (the silent bids having determined...
...many left-wing members of Britain's ruling Labor Party, it would have been preferable for the government to auction off some of the crown jewels. Transport Union Chieftain Jack Jones condemned the action as the squandering of a national asset. Grumped one Cabinet member in private: "It's like selling the paintings off the wall." What prompted all this indignation was the government's proposal last month to sell a substantial share of its stake in British Petroleum Co., the nation's largest industrial concern...
...objects, filling his 20-room mansion with more art works (his collection includes paintings by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya and Jan Sluyters), and building up millions of dollars in real estate holdings. His undoing began last spring with publicity that the firm of Sotheby-Mak Van Waay would auction part of Menten's art collection in Amsterdam. The same Israeli journalist, Haviv Kanaan, who had been accumulating evidence against Menten for decades, alerted the Dutch press and, once again, the government. The press, led by Hans Knoop, editor of the weekly magazine Accent, and journalists of a television current...
...however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
...group of Kirkland House juniors ran a call-in auction for a pair of choice seats. "Call in Your Bid," read the signs which they put up all around the University. And there was no dearth of callers, either...