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This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...
Disgruntled former Nazis who have quit or been purged out of the Party, and have no further use for brown shirts, have sold so many to a Swabian old-clothesman named Pius Degenhart that last week he staged an auction at Memmingen, was promptly jailed for "dishonoring the National Socialist Party uniform...
...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...
...bloom and it managed to take root, yielded for years the "Nordica rose." In Lindsborg Nordica roses are pressed in memory books, in massive family Bibles. In Manhattan Lillian Nordica seemed all but forgotten last week when many of her most valuable household possessions were sold at public auction for less than...
They quarrel about everything, rudely finger-point each other's blunders in derisive front-page jibes. Their longest-standing squabble, concerning comic strips, reached a ludicrous end last week. It began immediately after Banker Meyer bought the decadent Post at auction from the McLean estate two years ago. Until then the Post had carried, exclusively in Washington, the comic strips of Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy. While the Post was in receivership, smart Editor Patterson deftly slipped in, snapped up the comic strip contracts for her Herald. Into court marched irate Publisher Meyer, insisting that...