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...market is still roaring upwards and testing previous highs. Last week the center of action was Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, where one blue chip found a dynamic investor willing to bid it up to a new record price. The buyer was California Collector-Industrialist Norton Simon, who paid $1,550,000 for Auguste Renoir's Le Pont des Arts, upsetting the previous auction record for impressionist paintings, set by the Metropolitan Museum when it paid $1,410,000 for Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse a year...
Cats and Dogs. Norton Simon made doubly sure that the prize would not escape him; five minutes before the sale began he had two long-distance telephone lines open from his Fullerton, Calif., office to Parke-Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much...
...planned to audit Fine Arts 13 this semester, forget it. 415 students--80 more than last year--have signed up for the course so far and there are only 398 seats in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall...
Besides its television work, Talent As sociates has also engaged in a limited way in feature-film production (Requi em for a Heavyweight, A Raisin in the Sun). Referring to Norton Simon...
Under the terms of the get-together, Susskind and his partners will receive an undisclosed amount of Norton Si mon Inc. stock, run Talent Associates for at least five years...