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...unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...
When Finch Jumped into the race for governor of Mississippi in 1975 he at first seemed, to many political observers, enigmatic. Finch proclaimed himself "the working man's candidate" and adopted a lunch pail as his symbol. One day a week he rolled up his sleeves and worked at various jobs to demonstrate his dedication to the working man--one day he bagged groceries, the next day he drove a bulldozer...
...potent was the magical aura attributed to the 7th century Book of Burrow that one detached 17th century visitor watched its guardian monk dipping it, binding and all, into a pail of water to make a miraculous remedy for the monastery's sick cattle. (The cows recovered after drinking the water; the book still carries the stains.) The Metropolitan's exhibition contains not only the Book of Durrow, but also two of the four volumes-Mark and John-that make up the Gospel Book of Kells. This 8th century work, originally housed in the monastery of Kells...
This week, however, the last of the Star Co.'s lunch-pail capitalists will sell out to Capital Cities Communications Inc., the Manhattan-based owner of four small newspapers, 13 broadcast stations and Women's Wear Daily. Employees of the Kansas City company, which publishes the evening Star and the morning Times, gave up their stake so willingly because the papers will soon require very expensive modernization -and because the price was right: $125 million, twice the book value of the firm and probably the highest price ever paid for a one-city newspaper company...
...result has been a rash of new habits. Men have been surprised to learn that a shave normally consumes 2% gal. of water; they are no longer filling wash basins just to cut whiskers. Julie Graham, a San Rafael housewife with three children, uses a pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent...