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...Washington, were distributed among the recruits. After the War the borrowed "eyes" were returned to their owners-all but 697 pairs of binoculars, 295 telescopes, nine sextants, whose owners the Navy has yet to locate after twelve years of correspondence. Last week the Navy Department announced its intention to auction off all unclaimed instruments, asked for sealed bids...
...Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which any of the other brothers put through. They hasten to add that once the Dreyfus collection arrives in the U. S. it will not be put up for auction. "Duveen Brothers," a manager explained solemnly last week, "has its important private customers...
...told a New Bedford newsgatherer what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth of furniture to the Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding...
...announcement that Beck Hall is to be sold at auction brings up a line of memories and traditions that are unmistakably associated with Harvard. It means that one of the most colorful buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental attitude that forgets all of the bad plumbing, and the creaking floors, there is a very palpable point which should not be overlooked. With this new sale about to be negotiated, the question is, what is the attitude of the University going...
...newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...