Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could recall none larger. The night before, I went to a charity ball attended by hundreds of handsome people in gowns and tails and by an elephant, a tiger and a leopard, also in tails. The cats appeared to have been doped. The evening's highlight was an auction that raised $30,000 in ten minutes and offered a trip to Europe (which for some reason included Egypt) and a necklace worn by a good-looking brunette named Kimberly. After the necklace went, they auctioned off Kimberly's dress. Before any more parts of Kimberly could be sold...
...Guevara is a Marxist cult figure of high standing. Last week his chief legacy was a hot capitalist property and the object of hectic legal maneuvering in London. As the result of a legal action by the Bolivian government, a British judge upheld an injunction on Sotheby's auction house, preventing the sale of the original diaries of the Argentine-born guerrilla leader. The court order will allow Bolivia to continue its efforts to recover the documents that, its government says, were stolen from army archives in the capital...
...charter expires next April, and it has decided to sell its holdings in Redditch to a single buyer rather than auction them off piecemeal. A dozen secret bids have come in from land-development companies, construction firms and pension funds. The price is expected to be nearly $100 million, or $130 million...
...small, practical house that was erected as part of a huge retrospective of Wright's work on the site of the present Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When the show ended the house was dismantled, and Wright expressed the hope that it could be sold at auction to someone who would "permanently reestablish...
Last week, it was. Having lain in storage for years, original cabinet fronts, light fixtures, door frames and window sashes, along with twelve pieces of concrete block, 3½ chairs and the plans, were offered in a benefit auction for Channel 13, New York City's public television station. The buyer: Tom Monaghan, 47, ebullient owner of the Detroit Tigers, head of the 1,450-store Domino's Pizza empire and, by his own account, the world's leading Frank Lloyd Wright fanatic since he was twelve years old. He beat out prospective purchasers from across...