Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million paid for his Ragtime in 1975. Colleen McCullough's 1977 blockbuster, The Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says, "Two years ago, it would have brought over...
...fundraising auction of art and antiques in November, 1981, part of a larger effort to raise funds for the re-opening, elected a "wonderful response" from the community and the University. Nitza Rosovsky, coordinator of the exhibit said yesterday. Rosovsky declined to disclose the amount of money the museum has raised...
...several of the "slaves" interviewed by The Varsity denied that there was anything improper in the event, which drew criticism from some feminist and religious group. The women stressed that the auction was planned as a joke and a creative way to raise money...
Ignorant of the details of the limited, one-time art sale proposal, an organization of prominent museum directors lumped Live. Bok and Harvard together and publicly lambasted them as villains willing to auction off masterpieces to pay for plumbing and wiring. This well-intentioned but clumsy interference apparently gave Bok the final push toward a move he may have already favored: He cancelled all expansion plans, contending that the art sale proposal would scare away any possible replacements for Slive, who announced last year that he would relinquish the directorship this fall...
...Federal Communications Commission has until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven...