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...auctioneer, resplendent in morning coat and wing collar, said: "I am offered 1,000 guineas for lot 11." In the front row, a bidder merely lifted his finger to raise the price to 1,500 guineas. Near him another deliberate finger went up, and the bid rose to 2,000. Thus calmly and decorously went the biggest art auction of the year, held in London by Christie, Manson & Woods-the world-famed "Christie...
...block were about $200,000 worth of paintings, including items from the collections of Lord Halifax, Lord Winterton and the estate of the late Lord Rothermere. As usual, Sir Alec Martin, the 63-year-old managing director of Christie's, conducted the auction himself. Last week, the sale ended, he was able to report that Christie's had all but wound up one of its busiest years since...
...Santiago last week, the furnishings of the Soviet Embassy were sold at auction. Prices were disappointing. A living-room set was knocked down for 6,000 pesos ($120 at the free market rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps...
Crimson property in the Simmons sight-unseen date auction last night came off a woeful third to Tafts and M.L.T. entries as Senior Chuck Bilbeldt sold for $6.50 and the other two for $12.00 and $7.00, respectively. Simmons offered an apologias, however, stating that Hilboldt went on the blook first, before we reality got excited...
Simmons girls will have a chance to buy a Harvard man tonight, but they will have to give him back after one evening's entertainment. Charles S. "Chuck" Hilboldt '48 will go up on the auction block along with a "tall bland" from Tufts and in the college's assemble hall...