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...Amount paid for a cigar box once owned by John F. Kennedy, at an auction last week...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., a car that had been towed as a scofflaw vehicle was sold at auction. Moments later, a decomposed body wrapped in plastic was discovered in its trunk. Police believe it had been there "a few months...
...auction of John F. Kennedy memorabilia opened Wednesday, but some items were withdrawn to settle disputes with the National Archives and Kennedy's children, and some valuable lots went unsold. The sale at New York's Guernsey's auction house was sparsely attended, and several of the highest-priced items (which carried only "estimate upon request" designations) failed to sell. These included a Tiffany & Co. Cuban missile crisis calendar paperweight. An asking bid of $300,000 dropped to $100,000 but still failed to draw any interest. The evening's top seller was the Presidential yacht, the Honey Fitz, which...
...countless documents and objects that had belonged to our father and to the United States Government," the Kennedys said. Lincoln, who died in 1995, left the collection to her friend Robert White, who is selling a portion of his 100,000 items of Kennedy memorabilia at a New York auction this week. He hopes to open a museum with the proceeds, some of which are earmarked for cancer research...
This particular auction represents a rescheduling of the one that was being planned shortly before the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, son of Mohammad al Fayed, who had originally intended the Windsor auction to further enrich his world. Now, the net proceeds will go to a charitable foundation, which is proper and commendable but does not change the basic invasive nature of these events...