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...auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries seven years ago, Showman Billy Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...
With such genteel stiff-arming of the buyer, white-haired Hiram Parke, 76, who looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S. auction house, lured buyers from as far away as Europe and South America, and sold more than $50 million worth of paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, etc. At commissions ranging from 10% (plus expenses) up to 20%, he has always shown a tidy profit (last year's take: about...
...often "exposed." Actually, although Masonry's ritual is private, it contains no dreadful secrets. Its symbolism is commonplace (e.g., the trowel cements men in brotherly love; the white lambskin apron is for innocence). Its ceremonies are based on biblical stories. The legend of the slaying of Hiram Abif, one of the builders of Solomon's Temple, is the background of much of the ritual. The world of Hiram Abif-in which hardware dealers, druggists, lawyers like to make-believe in off-hours-is a world of pious vows and moral refreshment...
...first three degrees and is as far as the great majority of brethren ever progress. Degrees, for all their impressive titles, are simply grades in Masonry's school. In the Blue Lodge the brethren learn all they need to know to be good Masons, including the legend of Hiram Abif...
...Last month; Hiram Walker got a similar injunction against Sloppy Joe's liquor store in Denver for selling Imperial whisky at $3.99-$4.50 a quart (fair-trade price...