Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian press was outraged. "Why not St. Peter's Basilica!" snapped the Paese Sera. Grumbled Il Giornale d'ltalia: "It's like putting the Eiffel Tower up for auction." Romans conjured up terrible visions of neon signs winking over the colossal marble statues of Neptune and his Tritons...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year attracted 4,291,200 visitors and topped even 1961, the memorable "year of the Rembrandt." when more than 1,000,000 saw the museum's bought-at-auction $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Chicago's Art Institute showed a nice rise to 884,500. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts got a 20% increase in attendance...
...draftees under contract for the 1963 season, com pared with five of 14 for the N.F.L. The biggest money fights are still to come -over college stars who are playing in post season bowl games, cannot sign binding pro contracts until after the holidays. The top prizes on the auction block are Mississippi Tackle Jim Dunaway, Alabama Center Lee Roy Jordan and Louisiana State Halfback Jerry Stovall, all first-stringers on TIME'S pro-picked All-America, and all No. 1 draft choices. "For those three." says an A.F.L. official, ''the moon's the limit...
...Murray moved the Bay into Eastern Canada's large cities by merging with the ten-store Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky modestly called "Best Procurable.'' The Bay's profits last year were an alltime high of $8,893,000 on record gross revenue...
Survival Test. So sharply has the Bay changed that when Chester wanted to give his protégé Murray the toughest training the company could offer, he did not send him to the Arctic to deal with the Eskimos, but down to the New York fur auction to see how he would survive among the Seventh Avenue furriers. Murray succeeded so well that today the Bay's New York fur auction is the world's largest; ironically, though, it handles no wild fur-only tame, ranch-bred varieties...