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...champagne flowed and the checkbooks groaned at the annual silent auction benefitting the American Repertory Theatre (ART) last night...
...director Robert Brustein sparked a frenzy of bidding on the last auction lot, when he substituted an afternoon with Reeve on Martha's Vinyard for the original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went to a clairvoyant last week who told me I would marry someone with a name that begin with an R," said Jo Anne Kennedy, the lucky buyer...
...minute breakfast at the State House with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, went for $400. ART officials said last night they did not know how much the annual auction netted for the regional theater company, though the 1985 extravaganza raised approximately...
...have an orientation session per se, but sponsor a number of events like the Bahamas party, Spring Soiree, and Dutch Auction party this spring, which will give freshmen an opportunity to meet people and become acquainted with the house...
...buyers, however, do not exactly ration their funds. In a wild auction at the Chicago office of Christie's in 1981, one exuberant connoisseur paid $13,000 for a jeroboam (equal to six bottles) of Petrus 1961. Such princely prices have prompted Aaron of Sherry-Lehmann to call Petrus "the Rolls-Royce of all wines." Unfortunately, it is not possible to open a bottle just for a test drive...