Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency communicated its displeasure to the author. Undeterred, Marchetti decided in the spring of 1972 to tell all-or almost all. An enterprising literary agent, David Obst, who is also the agent for Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (see THE PRESS) and Daniel Ellsberg, held an auction for the rights to Marchetti's book. Alfred A. Knopf
...bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles for auction (highest price was $1,000); Senator Adlai Stevenson III, taxi-dancing; CBS's Dan Rather, selling kisses for 50 cents; and Martha Mitchell, who offered to call anyone, anywhere, about anything-for $5. At least one Congressman had his consciousness raised. The Rev. Robert Drinan bought a T shirt reading "Trust...
...occasion was a four-day "Heirloom Discovery Week," mounted by Sotheby Parke Bernet, the world's largest art auction house. Its purpose: to lure out of attics and dusty desuetude valuables deemed worthy of sale on Parke Bernet's prestigious block. "Operation Auntie Fannie," as one participant dubbed it, in reference to the genealogical source of many of the heirlooms, attracted 18,000 hopeful owners of treasure. They brought in coins and cutlasses, paintings and pottery, silverware and schlock, for evaluation by the company's 40 Manhattan experts. At least one in four visitors hit attic gold...
Most of Auntie Fannie's legatees, of course, came in with items that were what an auction house employee delicately called "more decorative than collective"-meaning junk. One elderly couple thrust a collection of cups and dishes at Porcelain Expert Armin Allen and proclaimed, "These, young man, are very, very old." After examining the china, Allen observed diplomatically that "it says 'Made in Germany,' and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that such a marking appeared." Another Parke Bernet diplomat, after examining a ring that its owner believed to be antique amber, said...
...told, the attic lode panned out to more than $5 million, of which about $1 million worth will be turned over to Sotheby Parke Bernet for auction. That will enable the sponsors of Operation Auntie Fannie to benefit too. The auction house's average commission...