Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has a come long way from the days when wealthy students bid for Harvard's more spacious rooms. But students' high-school preparation, family expectations, socioeconomic background and financial need still differ widely...
...bid to push the Massachusetts delegation to this summer's Republican Convention toward a pro-choice stance on abortion rights, Gov. William F. Weld '66 pledged Monday to oust delegates who oppose abortion rights, the Associated Press (AP) reported yesterday...
...secured Harvard a bid to the NCAA Lacrosse Championship tournament. Harvard was seeded 11th in the twelve-team tournament and will face sixth-seeded Hofstra next Saturday at Cornell...
...went for the next three days of cascading inflation. Many of those who showed up to bid on the desiderata of celebrity were themselves celebrities. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, spouse of J.F.K.'s niece Maria Shriver, muscled up $772,500 for J.F.K.'s MacGregor Woods golf clubs, $134,500 for a Norman Rockwell painting of the President and $189,500 for a leather desk set. From a different latitude, singer Jimmy Buffett telephoned in a winning bid of $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of the President in a sailboat...
...same question reverberated after the Thursday sessions, which produced more eye-popping numbers. In 1962 a young John F. Kennedy Jr. was photographed toying with a pearl necklace around the neck of his smiling mother. Lynda and Stewart Resnick, owners of the Franklin Mint Museum, based in Philadelphia, bid $211,500 for what looks like the same triple-strand necklace of simulated (read fake) pearls, offered at $700 to $900. Says she: "I'm a child of the '60s, and the John Kennedy Camelot years were the last time a lot of us were really innocent. That's what this...