Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until he could find out more about their value, Sherman decided to keep quiet about his stamps. Then, last week, he saw a small newspaper item about Gerald Clark, a collector in Ohio who had bought a sheet of the faulty Hammarskjolds, had mailed 31 of them off on letters before a friend pointed out the oddity. Clark checked with local post offices for other flawed stamps, found none, and optimistically figured that his remaining 19 stamps were worth $200,000. On that basis, Sherman figured that his intact sheet of 50 must be valued at more than...
...refer, even vaguely, to a deadline for a separate Soviet peace treaty with East Germany. Next day, Defense Chief Rodion Malinovsky reduced his professional rocket-rattling to below last year's noise level, reviewed an eight-minute march-past of military hardware that included only one new item: a 50-ft.-long, probably solid-fuel missile that was billed by the Russians as capable of being fired from a submerged submarine, like the U.S. Polaris missile...
...sculptures," provided they are good. Prices range from $100 for a Chadwick drawing to $400,000 for a Cézanne. Whatever the price, a customer can have confidence that his purchase will be authentic: five full-time librarians do little else but trace the history of every item bought or sold...
...staff as "M. Georges/' does much of his own sleuthing. Nothing delights him more than to work in his office after closing hours and pore over what has become one of the largest collections of auction catalogues in the world. Occasionally, Wildenstein's may have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five benefit shows a year that were...
...TINY TV. The most hypnotically popular item to be introduced in many months is a tiny TV set with a screen smaller than a postcard (4½ in. by 3½ in.). Made by Japan's Sony, Micro-TV produces a snapshot-clear picture, weighs only 8 Ibs., and can operate on house current, a rechargeable battery pack, or-in states where the law allows it-on the juice from an auto cigarette lighter socket. One of Micro-TV's neatest features is its view-ability at less than arm's length on office desk or bedside...