Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Derek C. Bok's car was sold to the second highest bidder for $4371 in the Phillips Brooks House Association's (PBHA) silent auction on January 6, after the highest bidder declined...
...funds from the auction will be divided evenly between the Homeless Committee, Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program, and the Summer Urban Program, according to Lee H. Smith, PBHA's administrative assistant...
...They were so thin they looked like Giacometti sculptures -- living stick figures," LaBell recalls. "The photograph so haunted me that I decided I wanted to do something about it." Marrying his pledge to his profession, he came up with a plan to organize a charity art auction for the United Nations Children's Fund...
LaBell's efforts culminated in a benefit auction last September at Sotheby's in New York City that raised almost $250,000. Funds from the auction have been directed to relief and development projects in nine countries, which will help thousands of children...
...days after he was arrested for Kennedy's killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold...