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...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
...Nelsons had a horror of letting others use their personal belongings. The Nelson cars, upon their owners' death, were soaked in gasoline and burned. Their jewels, clothes and furniture were shipped 250 miles away to be sold at auction. Oak Hall, the family home, was taken apart brick by brick and the art museum erected on the site...
Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...
...Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial...
...Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...