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Hereford raisers had reason to hope that the mark would be broken again next year. In the closing minutes of the auction, Bob Lazear, manager of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch at Cheyenne, Wyo., received the most fabulous offer yet-$100,000 for W. H. R. Helmsman III, judged top bull of the show. But, income taxes being what they are, Bob Lazear was of no mind to set a record: he turned down the offer. Said he: "I wouldn't know what to do with $100,000, but I know what to do with a bull...
...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...
...thus, last week, felt most U.S. cigaret smokers. But there was little relief in sight. Across the land, men, women and even small fry continued to experiment half-heartedly with pipes. In Chicago, a chain drug store picked up a couple of hundred cartons at a Post Office auction and hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they're called." Said bustling Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
...Dewey packed 20,000 into the Boston Garden. He charged: "Mr. Roosevelt, to perpetuate himself in office for 16 years, has put his party on the auction block-for sale to the highest bidder...