Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also founded the Bryn Mawr Book Sale in 1957 to raise money for scholarships to her alma mater. In addition to her full-time work at Harvard, she volunteered 20 hours a week at the store, located on Huron Ave. in Cambridge. Each year, the store raises more than $25,000 for the scholarship fund...
...family has asked that donations in lieu of flowers be sent in her memory to the Bryn Mawr Book Sale, 373 Huron Ave., Cambridge...
...reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall bestseller lists and the winter rummage sale...
Before the auction, thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, strolled through the exhibition rooms to see the collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian...
...major items would probably have fetched the same prices if they had been offered to 40 dealers in a room, but the prices of all the other pieces get swept along during a sale like this." Lee himself swept down $294,000 for a Rembrandt drawing, setting another record...