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...convinced" said one Guildsman. "We're not really sure they're folding." Inside the Eagle building, Publisher Schroth sadly demonstrated in the only way he could that the paper was closed down for good. Unable to find a buyer for the Eagle, Schroth put it up for auction piecemeal. Bidding was slow, with only one $8,000 bid for the paper's name, good will and list of 124,000 subscribers (it was rejected as too low). Machinery dealers and printers paid $108,000 for some of the paper's mechanical equipment and another...
...Eagle building. Last week Schroth set a deadline in his efforts to save Brooklyn's only daily. If the paper cannot be sold as a unit to a responsible publisher by May 2, he announced, its mechanical equipment, subscription lists and furnishings will be sold piecemeal at auction...
...sacrifice, providing Poujade with a prospective treasury this year of some 400 million francs or more than $1 million. In return, Poujade provides tax-evasion advice and devises new tactics. Sample: when police seized the furniture, clothes and inventory of a defaulting shopkeeper and put them up for public auction, Poujade filled up the auction with cronies who offered absurdly low bids, finally bought all the items for a total of no francs ($0.31) and triumphantly returned them to the shopkeeper...
...visitors a year -more than the combined yearly attendance at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Many thousands more visit Manhattan's 150 art galleries, where Superman, if so inclined, might see 1,500 exhibitions in a single season. The city's galleries and art auction houses did a total business last year as great as that of any other capital. And, say gallery men, business will be even bigger this year...
...Lexington, Kentucky's Keeneland Sale, the Aga Khan's nine-year-old bay mare, Masaka, was bought by Horsetrader A. B. Hancock Jr. for $105,000, highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred brood mare at a U.S. auction...