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...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...
Holding his first annual cattle auction at his farm near Carthage, Tenn., Democratic Senator Albert Gore unloaded 51 females and four bulls for a tidy gross of $69,530. Observing the auction, Artist-Author Ludwig (Hotel Splendide) Bemelmans was so carried away by Miss Burgess of Marwood, a Black Angus yearling heifer, that he got her for $1,250. "She had such a kind face," Bemelmans explained, "I couldn't keep from buying her. I also liked the idea of keeping her for a pet, not raising her for slaughter." To put Miss Burgess up, Bemelmans will...
Notorious Auction. This was what the crowd had been waiting for. They had heard about Ronnie for years (TIME, July 12, 1954). As a teen-age star, he had traipsed from one high school to another while his vastly ambitious stepfather hand-picked his coaches. As a college freshman, he had been auctioned off to the highest bidder and gone to the University of California at Berkeley. But Stepfather Harvey had not been pleased when Ronnie was treated as something of a rookie. Last year he brought his boy south to U.C.L.A., casually tossed away a year of Ronnie...
...market boom that has pushed French impressionist paintings to dizzy heights (TIME, July 11) has begun to inflate Old Master values as well. London's leading auction galleries, which handle a lion's share of the world's Old Master market, totaled their year's earnings last week and found that they had set new sales records. Bestsellers...
...18th Century Venetians: Canaletto's near-photographic panoramas of Venice could be bought for a few hundred dollars 15 years ago, now cost up to $30,000. A small pair of cityscapes by Francesco Guardi sold for $7,700 in 1946, brought $25,200 at auction in London last March. One reason for the comeback: the present fashion for imitation 18th century interiors. (Because early Renaissance furniture does not appeal to decorators this year, prices for Italian primitives are down...