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...GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's searching and occasionally confusing study of brains on the auction block...
...since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...
...Butte the arrival of the strangers?financiers, lawyers, rail-roaders?will prepare for the opening of perhaps the greatest auction sale in history, the knocking down, under the hammer of a U. S. special master, of the $750,000,000 St. Paul system, the system which stretches from a network of roads anastomosing over Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois, then in a thin line over Montana, Idaho and Washington to Puget Sound?11,000 miles of trackage...
Last week the judge finally ordered both. The place of auction will be the main entrance of the Butte railroad station. The time he will set much later, waiting with courtesy to the I. C. C. until it completes its investigations...
...card exposed during the auction must be left exposed; if it is a ten or higher, its holder's partner is barred from the auction. (The old code was indiscriminate...