Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...item above referred to appears on the book review page. In giving currency to such erroneous ideas about Christian Science and its founder, I believe you are not only injuring your magazine but doing a great injustice to Christian Science...
...final heat of the 600-yard run, the most interesting item of the day, J. H. Pearson '32 and N. P. Dodge '33, both running from scratch in a large field of entries, sprinted neck and neck at the taps after four laps of spirited running. Pearson nosed out his rival in the last few yard's pacing, finishing a mere tenth of a second ahead of Dodge. J. B. White '34 pressing this pair hotly throughout the race and finished a good third, a second behind the winner...
Last week Brother Tikytt's psalter appeared in Manhattan as a principal item in an auction of the library of the Marquess of Lothian at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc. Not in two decades, it was claimed, had such an important sale of manuscripts and incunabula occurred...
Second night of the sale, devoted to minor items, was interrupted by the disposal of one major item of Americana which came, not from the Lothian library, but from that of George Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam. of Milton, Peterborough, England. Addressed "to the KINGS most excellent majesty," this musty sheaf of papers has had a career so interesting that most U. S. collectors value it second only to the Declaration of Independence.* Written in a neat spidery hand which is almost certainly that of John Dickenson of Pennsylvania, it was the final petition to George III by the American Colonies...
Last week's sale of the "Olive Branch," only signed copy in the U. S., set a new price record for a single item of Americana.† After spirited competition with A. Edward Newton. Charles Sessler of Philadelphia, and Alwin J. Scheuer of New York, who ran the price to $52,000, Gabriel Wells, Manhattan collector and dealer whose Americana is one of the most important in the U. S., bought it for $53,000. Said he: "That will go directly into my safe. You can depend on that...