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Last week in Bluffton, the day came for ingathering of talents. It was a smashing success. The Business Men's Association, enthusiastic about the idea from the first, had helped by endorsing a community auction and turning over all commissions to the talent drive. The four Warrens had used their talents to buy a heifer, which produced a calf for sale. Norman Triplett and Betty Caris had made and sold neckties. Larry Zimmerly had done wonders with his talent by raising rabbits. Altogether, the $2,000 in talents had multiplied...
...went to the public auction of a struggling little Disciples of Christ publication (circ. about 600). No other prospective customers showed up, so Dr. Morrison got the Christian Century for $1,500 cash...
...rules laid down by their hostess, the gentlemen would have to bid in cold cash (which would go to a charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven guineas. Blonde Princess...
...women. After five silkless years, they had learned to like Nylon better than silk in stockings, slips and girdles. Nor did U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average at $4.70 and guaranteed to keep it there until the end of the year. With this artificially high floor under silk and with good quality...
...Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...