Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offering to sell it to the highest bidder. But Dennis, 39, has a thing about cats, and lives with 33 of them (guests who drop in for a visit have been known to find fur in their drinks). So when the Humane Society of New York City decided to auction off some homeless kittens, guess who was asked to be auctioneer? Dennis did fairly well, too: she sold seven cats for $70 and, it goes without saying, picked out one to take home. "His name is Kelly," says Dennis, "and I have three others like him-but not just like...
What has taken the glitter off gold so suddenly? One major factor is that the U.S. has been relatively successful in its campaign to remove gold from the international monetary system. Last year the U.S. persuaded other countries, including a reluctant France, that the International Monetary Fund should auction off one-sixth of its gold hoard, or 25 million ounces. Meanwhile, the economic conditions that triggered the gold boom of 1973-74 have largely disappeared. The dollar is steady, world inflation rates have come down and the general panic set off by the oil crisis has abated. All those trends...
America's own rare feathered inhabitants populate Boston galleries. The auction of E.S. Curtis's photographs of American Indians, at Sotheby Parke-Bennett in New York, demonstrated what expensive collector's items these sepia portraits of a vanished Indian have become. Boston galleries who bagged one or two of these trophies have made the pictures the core of exhibits...
...that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit on bidding still left the players with less than the wide-open auction they had won from the arbitrator's ruling, said Miller, and he remained afraid that the players' association could be sued by individual members if it signed away that legal right. But many of the players were itchy. Player representatives from the teams reportedly voted...
With decorum the unwritten law of the land, the acts so far have produced the first ripples of change. London's Sotheby's, the internationally famed art auction house, has named Libby Howie, 24, as the first female auctioneer in its 232-year history. Linette Simms, 43, black and the mother of six, is now tootling along as the first woman among 350 male London school-bus drivers after previously being turned down because of her sex. And in advertising, notices now solicit "secretaries" instead of "dolly birds...