Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dissolve. auction for $792, Hard Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with a Derby winner's $56,000 purse. CJ Although they seem stuck in the second division of the American League, the Detroit Tigers finally managed to boost themselves out of baseball's sociological basement. Third...
...Attorney Tom Lynch asked for bids on a rattan duck rising from dried grasses, Columnist Herb ("Mr. San Francisco") Caen tried to peddle the services of a private eye. For five days last week, from midafternoon to midnight, these and a hundred other prominent San Franciscans acted as volunteer auctioneers for some 5,000 items donated by San Francisco merchants or individuals. Occasion: the fourth annual fund-raising auction for San Francisco's KQED-TV, the community-owned educational television station...
While litigious, blonde Bobo Rockefeller was asked to cough up $2,547.92, awarded a Manhattan decorator in a suit over some unpaid bills, her cowpokin' ex-husband Winthrop augmented the family coffers by $171,000. At an auction on his Arkansas farm, attended by some 4,000 cattle lovers, Millionaire Winnie disposed of 39 prize Santa Gertrudis cows and bulls at an average price of $4,380 per head...
...staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh-place finisher would bring his backer $11,970. For the 22 golfers there was another $40.000 in prizes...
...that what he wanted was agricultural machinery, not tanks. "We're not going to fight anybody," he said. "The cotton market is just a few hundred yards from the Soviet embassy. They can walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash. In the auction there's no alternative for cash." Later he recalled: "They got angry, but that's how we're going to deal with them. We're going to tell the truth...