Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's bolt from the losing side jolted other satellite fence-sitters: ¶Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Parvan Draganov publicly repeated Premier Ivan Bagrianoffs recent peace bid (TIME, Aug. 28). Through emissaries in Istanbul, Sofia notified London and Washington that it was ready to surrender. Probable terms: withdrawal of Bulgarian troops in Greece and Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich...
Heroic Ugliness. Horn-rimmed Auctioneer Harry Loree moved from bedroom to bedroom, followed by a herd of bidders. In each room he mounted a chair, addressed his audience in machine-gun auctionese: "I have eight dollars bid for the pier-mirror eight dollars eight dollars eight dollars SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns...
...supremacy of Helen Sobel. Eleven Life Masters are now in uniform, but the championship sessions at Manhattan's Hotel Astor showed a better quality of play than in prewar years. (It also set four new attendance records-daily average, 100 tables.) The Culbertson system, basis of all contract bidding, has been modified, streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak bid by most of the experts, because so few hands have enough honor...
...liquidating all U.S. military investments in her airways, Canada was getting ready to bid for her share in the postwar air-transport business. She was in a prime strategic position. The Geography of World Air Transport, just published by Washington's Brookings Institution, showed that the Canadian airfields formed part of two of the three principal aerial gateways from North America (the third: southern U.S. to South America...
...fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with the simple caption Curley. Bill Robinson introduced the Curley Capers. Grover Whalen bid for his services as a morris dancer at the New York World's Fair...