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...home with friends in Northampton, Mass., offered for sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais...
Last week the Washington Art Galleries announced an auction sale of M. Ghods's personal effects. Listed were 153 separate items, including 144,656 sq. ft. of Persian rugs and carpets, miniatures, manuscripts, brocades, silverware, paintings, etc., the rugs alone dutiable at $72,233.35. Customs men suddenly sprang to life...
...Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French. By the time the scenery was paid for there was just enough money left to buy Poet Verlaine 30 drinks of absinthe. Painter Gauguin sold his pictures at auction, went to Tahiti anyway...
...Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first...
...himself in the warehouse. U. S.-born of German parentage, the brothers still speak German in the family circle. President Edward makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink. Each takes only $5,000 a year out of the business as salary...