Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were once exchanged for Carder's present Fifth Ave nue headquarters), now considered to be worth only one-tenth their original value, still brought $181,000. Her 213.1 carat diamond necklace was knocked down to Manhattan Jeweler Julius Furst for $385,000, highest price ever paid for any item at a U.S. auction. By week's end, with the Rovensky library still to be sold, the total auction stood at $2,387,275, an alltime U.S. record...
When the Journal received the crudely printed letter (signature: F.P.), it decided to withhold the story from police and aim for the jackpot: the bomber's surrender. Instead of printing the letter, the Journal ran a wily item in its Personals column intimating that it would "help" the bomber if he gave himself up. The ad caught the eye of World-Telegram Managing Editor Richard Starnes, who guessed immediately that the Journal had received a letter from the bomber, checked out his hunch, and broke a Page One story on the bomber's "new letter...
Council apathy reached a highpoint when the members refused even to make an inquiry into the Treasurer's incapacity to handle his budget. Somewhere the Domestic Scholarship item for $500 got lost in the shuffle, and nobody really seemed to care...
Died. Charles Henry Campbell, 52, witty, walrus-mustached, New Orleans-raised Briton, longtime (1923-42) staffer of the New Orleans Item and Morning Tribune, Britain's head pressagent in Washington since 1942; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Knoxville, Tenn...
...Stonestreet's Fred Shaw declared, "Right now Ivy is the style of the nation, and the shoppers know it." Flannel night shirts, matching male-female sport shirts, and "6-footer scarves" are large sellers. But most of the shops found that English Challis ties were the most called for item. "Our customers like colors, but they like them subdued...