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...Million-Dollar Rembrandt" for$2,300,000 - last week provided some even more provocative insightsinto the values of U.S. collectors. Where a penciled score by FredericChopin went for $40, a set of letters from John Glenn to an auto dealer fetched $425 and a collection of Charles Lindbergh memorabilia brought $3,500. Sharpest reflection of the spirit of the age, however, was theprice commanded by some correspondence of Sigmund Freud...
...portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display of memorabilia, invited Lawrence to the ceremony...
CARL SANDBURG, by Harry Golden (287 pp.; World; $5). Harry (Only in America) Golden has put together an undefinitive biography of his old friend the poet out of snips and snatches from Sandburg's autobiography, newspaper columns, poetry and memorabilia. But there are some nuggets in this worked-over lode. Item: Sandburg was briefly considered by important Republicans as a dark-horse Republican candidate for the presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg...
...Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. In the first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of memorabilia from the U.S.'s most noted diplomatic family, the nation's second President delivers forceful opinions on matters ranging from French jokes (shameful) to British agriculture (U.S. manure is better...
...Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. In the first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of memorabilia from the U.S.'s most noted diplomatic family, the nation's second President delivers forceful opinions on matters ranging from French jokes (shameful) to British agriculture (U.S. manure is better...