Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book auction also got a rise out of Georgia's Sam Nunn, top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ethics laws ban federal officials from using their office for private gain, and Nunn complained that Perle's proposal was a convenient fiction designed to cash in on his Government experience. Perle replied that he does not intend to begin writing or accept the money until he leaves office...
Sophomore Mitch Berman won the right to stage a rally for the cause of his choice at a Dunster House "Dutch Auction" in December. Berman chose to rally behind his favorite cause--the Mets...
...champagne flowed and the checkbooks groaned at the annual silent auction benefitting the American Repertory Theatre (ART) last night...
...director Robert Brustein sparked a frenzy of bidding on the last auction lot, when he substituted an afternoon with Reeve on Martha's Vinyard for the original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went to a clairvoyant last week who told me I would marry someone with a name that begin with an R," said Jo Anne Kennedy, the lucky buyer...
...minute breakfast at the State House with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, went for $400. ART officials said last night they did not know how much the annual auction netted for the regional theater company, though the 1985 extravaganza raised approximately...