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...wanted any further evidence of this degeneration we can find it in the despair that leads to auction sales and in the abandonment of farms. We can find it in the undue killing of dairy cattle. We can find it in the shops without supplies for the housewife for days at a time. We can find it in local famines of meat or butter or potatoes or something else. We can find it in the epidemic of black markets all over the country...
...elegant life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch from Medford Rum.* He started out at the Murray Hill as assistant night clerk, soon rose to manager. He saved his money, increased it by speculation. When the hotel went on the auction block, he held a mortgage on all the furnishings, became the natural and successful bidder. Ben Bates had one firm resolution: the Murray Hill must not change. He would not permit sandblasting of its dirtied outer walls: every brick was washed by hand. He spent half a million for renovations...
...world's biggest hotel put on the world's biggest auction sale last week in Chicago. Everything movable (and some choice stationary items) in the 3,000-room Stevens Hotel went on the block. The Stevens, now the home of some 9,000 U.S. Army Air Forces students, cost its builders $28,000,000 in 1927, was sold to the Army for only $6,000,000 last December. Proceeds of the auction of its furnishings, which were last valued at $2,200,000, will apply against the Army's purchase price...
There were 6,600 different items in the auction, some of them in lots of more than 5,000. To Chicagoans, auctioneering Samuel L. Winternitz & Co.'s 995-page inventory brought nostalgic reminders of the hotel's heyday in the '20s. To the buyers who flocked into auction headquarters in the 21-story Electric Garage, the lots were mouth-watering reminders of the days before rationing and stop-production orders. Items...
...well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived...