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...Although rummy and solitaire are slightly better known, bridge is played most often. Among both auction and contract players questioned, 41% play once a week or oftener, another 16% play once a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four-Fifths of a Nation | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...onions can be found in public mar kets. At an auction last week for London's War Weapons fund, a basket of onions brought $137,532- about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empty Cupboards | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...several guest artists. The members take part in every show, while the guest artists are invited for specific exhibitions. On April 21 the prints will be replaced by a showing of pictures suitable for wedding presents, which is run to the end of the season, when a giant auction is planned. The wedding present show will probably include the work of five or six guest artists from various parts of the country. All the artists included have shown several times before and at prices two or three times the Alliance scale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art For Sale | 4/16/1941 | See Source »

...special Hollywood auction (for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund), loyal Democrats Edward G. Robinson and Melvyn Douglas raised $3,200 between them, triumphantly retired from circulation the dun-colored fedora under which Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned thrice for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 31, 1941 | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...auctioning off the track's fixtures and equipment, many a nostalgic fan was on hand. For an hour and a half a red-faced auctioneer knocked down $2,000 worth of chairs, tables, other track paraphernalia. Suddenly he declared a recess. After a long wait he returned to tell the crowd that the auction was off, someone had taken an option on the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fair Grounds Saved | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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