Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spokane, some 3,500 curious and bargain-hungry citizens turned out to watch the Government auction off the house and effects of mobdom's tax delinquent Virginia Hill. The house was knocked down to a local salesman for $30,237, just $237 more than the Government's minimum selling price. Some 1,800 odds & ends brought a total of $14,992, including Virginia's own little .25-caliber pistol with a clip and a couple of shells for $36; a ruby-studded wedding ring intended for her marriage to the late Bugsy Siegel, which went...
...Hollywood, the marathon auction of Hedy Lamarr's personal effects finally got down to the jewelry. Among the trinkets: four used wedding rings, knocked down for a total...
...buying policies are also causing jitters in Australia, where high-grade wool tumbled to $2.19 a lb. at auction last week, compared to $3.73 in March. The U.S. Quartermaster touched off the market break when he stopped stockpiling wool for uniforms. The Australians, are also faced with a new threat to high wool prices. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson said that the Government might promote a big synthetic-wool industry by granting tax advantages for expansion to Du Pont (Dacron), Union Carbide & Carbon (Dynel) and other makers of wool substitutes. Such a program could eventually make the Merino sheep as obsolete...
With a disregard for sentiment that raised even Hollywood's firmly planted brows, Hedy Lamarr closed the doors of her Beverly Hills house behind her, put its entire contents up for auction. She was leaving not only her screen career, but all its trappings, to begin life anew in Acapulco, Mexico, where her new (fourth) husband, ex-Bandleader Ted Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats...
...important, it shines with the Gioconda smile, tight yet tender, fleeting yet eternal, which was Leonardo's strangest and least imitable gift to human imagination. The drawing may have taken the artist no more than an hour to do; the Met bought it in May at a London auction...