Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connecticut happily antique-hunting with your mother. You stop off at an auction and spend $3.50 on a "mystery chest." Six men help you carry it to your Ford station wagon, and when you open it, you find 40 metal film tins marked: Greed, Reels 1-40. "What a long film to make about such an unpleasant subject," your mother says as you open one of the tins. The film wound around the rusty reels is brown and moldy: fungus-like organisms have sprouted from the innumerable folds. Overcome by a powerful smell, you sneeze on it, and the brown...
...with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...
...acre Hullvue Polled Hereford Farms near Picton, and a half interest in the 240-acre Golden Hawk Hereford Ranch near Demorestville. Around those various properties are scattered his 540 head of cattle, including a prize Polled Hereford bull named Hardean Woodrow Masterpiece-one of whose heifers sold at auction last year for $2,500. Hull does not really expect to get that much for any of the 57 head he will put on the block at his annual auction next August; he'll be satisfied if he clears...
Among the most suspect: a Vermeer Self-Portrait that Bass tried to auction off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet in 1962. Since only 30 unchallenged Vermeers are known to exist, a genuine Vermeer should have brought as much as $1,000,000. But there were so few bidders for Bass's Vermeer that he was forced to buy it back...
...cinema majors include Hollywood Directors King Vidor and Norman Taurog, while Jerry Lewis is an "adjunct professor." U.C.L.A., which has an enrollment of over 300, is about to complete a $2,500,000 film-production center, including several tons of first-quality equipment purchased at an auction from the old Hal Roach Studios. Twenty-five hundred miles away, the N.Y.U. film school (enrollment: 250) lacks the advantages of California sunshine and nearby Hollywood expertise. But it does have a topflight staff of 27, headed by Robert Saudek, onetime producer of TV's Omnibus...