Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birthday-July 21 in Madrid and it was finished September 6 of the same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable travel information." Last week Bibliophile Guffey's library was up for auction, and his collection of Hemingway brought $19,805. Main item: the major portion of the handwritten manuscript of Death in the Afternoon, for which Manhattan's House of Books, Ltd. paid $13,000-one of the highest sums ever given for a manuscript by a living author...
Rolls-Royces and Bentleys jammed London's narrow St. George Street one night last week, unloaded enough celebrities to make a smash Covent Garden opening night. Their objective: Sotheby's, the staid auction house where seven impressionist paintings from the collection of the late banker Jakob Goldschmidt were going under the hammer...
...selected spectators could get into the musty, green-walled main gallery; the rest of the 1,400 ticket holders were sent to other rooms, where they could follow the bidding on closed-circuit TV screens. The sale took only 21 minutes. But from the first rap of the auctioneer's hammer, prices leaped upward at a $100,000-a-minute clip to shatter every known art auction record. Items...
...this time Maverick had become a hero. Newspapers cheered him. A thousand dog lovers wrote and phoned the animal shelter begging for him. So great was the demand that the shelter agreed to auction him off, and last week at the auction Mrs. Doris Crown, wife of a Van Nuys aircraft-parts manufacturer, bought him for $134.88, drove him away in her red convertible Cadillac...
...summer of 1921, six of us-all summer bachelors-played at Copenhagen's Klubben. The six: the Norwegian minister, the Dutch minister, the Siamese minister, two officials of the Danish Foreign Office and I, the U.S. charge d'affaires. The game, with cutting in and out, was auction, but with one new major scoring wrinkle: if you chose to jeopardize what seemed like a sure game by bidding a small slam or a grand slam, the reward, as now, was 500 points for a small slam and 1,000 for grand slam...