Word: memorabilia
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...where we no longer have to fight for anything, the closest we get to that primitive sense of sheer conquest must be that of the auction room, where total strangers battle it out for a piece of the spoils. And I think too that that quality of auctions makes memorabilia an especially popular source for auctions...
...yesterday, deans and singers assembled to inaugurate a new Holden Chapel. Over the summer, dingy linoleum floors were replaced with wood, and walls cluttered with choral memorabilia were cleaned and covered with acoustical paneling...
...Soliciting it through:] A "Web-a-Thon" and auction of memorabilia...
...auction house opened bidding on an "eternity band" given by Joe DiMaggio to MARILYN MONROE. The bidding proved more competitive than the game, with the diamond ring scoring $770,000 from an anonymous buyer. Among the less eternal items, which nevertheless sold big during the auction of Monroe memorabilia, were a makeup case (with used cosmetics), which sold for $266,000, and six pictures of her dog that fetched $222,500. Singer Mariah Carey laid out $660,000 for a piano, and designer Tommy Hilfiger ponied up $112,000 for jeans and cowboy boots. The sale's highest price went...
Just before Matt leaves this evening, he pulls out a planner complete with pictures of his deceased friends, business cards of the hospitals he has stayed in and other painful memorabilia. "It's part of my life," says Matt. "I'll show this to my kids...