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...year ago Pequot's directors reluctantly decided to sell some of the books. They asked Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction galleries for an appraisal. The expert who came to look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town...
City Manager John B. Atkinson reports that at a recent auction of garbage (it is sold for hog food), a gentleman bid an amount much higher than any of his competitors. When questioned about his reasons, he replied that the Harvard garbage when fed to the hogs was much more nutritious than any other...
...before, Fuad students had paraded with placards threatening riots if the British were not thrown out within 20 days. Then the Premier announced, in a note to the King, that he would get after the corruption and nepotism which had poisoned the Wafd party. "Parliamentary seats are sold by auction," he said, "and government posts have become the prerogatives of relatives and friends...
...Abby Smith '54 had been at the 'Cliffe Grant-in-Aid Fund auction the could have bid for her brand new English bike...
...coat, finally remade it into two stoles and sold them at a big loss. But chinchilla men answer that the only pelts available for coats in recent years were poor ones from animals that had died from disease or old age. They argue that at the last big chinchilla auction in 1944, prices were about the same as for mink pelts, and they foresee a market for as many as 3,000,000 pelts a year...