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Internal Revenue agents seized the lavish San Fernando Valley ranch belonging to Cinemactress Veronica Lake and her director husband Andre De Toth, gave them 20 days to settle a $62,000 back income-tax bill or see the property sold at auction...
...auction rooms of Melbourne, Australia last week, wool prices tumbled from $566 a bale to $466, the sharpest break in history. Reason: U.S. buyers had pulled out of the market in an attempt to force prices down. They were taking their cue from U.S. consumers at home, who were also staging something like a buyers' strike. Department-store sales for the week ended March 31 slumped 14% below the corresponding week last year (two weeks before Easter). Business inventories in February piled up to a record $65 billion...
Temple Israel of West Palm Beach needed a new synagogue. Said Coe: "I didn't see why we couldn't help them, too. I'm for churches. They do a lot of good . . ." Last week he and his committee held a second auction, raised $65,000. Said Washington's visiting Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld: "The real test of good will in a community is action." Said Socker Coe: "I believe a good deal of bigotry was broken down by the committee . . . There's a general attitude of friendliness that wasn't there before...
Last week, he held an auction at his Headquarters Ranch near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price...
...Auction results should help bring this year's Grant-in-Aid returns up to at least $3,000," Elizabeth K. Heaton '51, president of Radcliffe's Student Council, predicted yesterday...