Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eying the dollar loss, some exchange experts thought that the pound might be in for more trouble, unless Britain removed her strict controls on its use. Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still...
At an auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries seven years ago, Showman Billy Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's...
With such genteel stiff-arming of the buyer, white-haired Hiram Parke, 76, who looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S...
Diamond Jim's Gems. Fortnight ago, Hiram Parke popped champagne for a housewarming in the galleries' new $1,500,000 home, a squat, block-long modern building on upper Madison Avenue, 20 blocks away from his old store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the...
Gettysburg & Gainsborough. Though Hiram Parke now does little auctioneering himself, he still has a quick eye for the furtive lapel-clutching, pamphlet-waving, nose-pulling signals that can mean a bid. And he has not lost the ability to keep bidding at the fever pitch that he first showed more...