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...gloom deepened as the fur auction season started last week in Manhattan. Even in the rarer types (e.g., Silverblumink) only half the pelts offered were sold; in the top quality dark ranch mink, prices were off 30 to 50% from last year...
Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion. Six years ago, a weedy yearling-reportedly one of her descendants-was led into an auction ring and knocked down for ?400. That was how Peter Riddle, a veteran Australian horseman, came by Shannon...
...Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year, after Peter Riddle's death, all Australia listened in by radio as Shannon was once again led into the auction ring...
...found the couple listening to the last half of the game at the Wellesley police headquarters waiting hopefully for a bail clerk to appear any minute, but the d---bail clerk didn't arrive until 5:30 p.m. By about 3:30 a very glum couple tried to auction off the two Harvard-Yale tickets to some very non-interested Wellesley policemen. Part of the idea was to raise bail money...
Club officers hope to auction off a date with the Queen, but haven't decided what the price will...