Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's most frenzied bidding was for Warhol's stash of 152 cookie jars, mass-produced pottery from the 1930s and '40s in cutesy animal and cartoon motifs. At one point, two Manhattan businessmen faced off over two cookie jars and a pair of salt and pepper shakers in the form of a black chef and his wife. The final bid: $23,100 for a lot whose value Sotheby's had estimated at $100 to $150. "Spiritually, they are just wonderful," gushed Maria Olivia Judelson, wife of the victor. If so, then Cuban-born Businessman Gedalio Grinberg was truly...
...Muppet memorabilia went for $1,760. A Fred Flintstone quartz watch, still bearing its original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...
...with TIME, orders for her freedom suddenly arrived. The lower-court judge investigating her case decided to drop it because of insufficient evidence. That decision must be ratified by a superior court, however, before the matter is closed. Minutes after receiving the good news, the prisoners gathered downstairs to bid the American farewell. "Goodbye to Canto Grande," they sang in Quechua, exchanging the traditional Andean lyrics for revolutionary rhetoric. "I am going to fight for justice . . . for the peasants and the poor, armed with a gun and a flag . . . I will fight the fascists...
...Crimson is ranked eighth in the nation and looking for its first NCAA playoff bid since 1980. Unranked and luckless New Hampshire, a team that lost to Yale by only one goal, hasn't had a very memorable season and is now just one game away from summer vacation...
...which gave second-year Coach Ed Krass a second Ancient Eight championship, earned the Crimson its fifth-straight bid to the NCAA Championships, which will begin Wednesday at UCLA. Harvard--seeded 20th in the tournament--will play Trinity University, the 13th seed...