Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...searching out the buyers' markets: "When other collectors bought large canvases, I would buy small pictures. Later, when smaller paintings were more readily hung I acquired large ones. When interest lagged in English, Dutch and Flemish schools, I added them." In 1939 Collector Chrysler also set a U.S. auction record tor Cézanne paintings by paying $27,500 for the portrait of Madame Cézanne...
Outbidding Hearst, Meyer bought the Post anonymously at auction for a bargain $825,000 in 1933-four years after he had offered $5,000,000 and been turned down. He found it "mentally, morally, physically and in every other way bankrupt," the raddled plaything of oil-rich Playboy Edward ("Ned") McLean. A horse fancier, gaudy Publisher McLean once devoted three of the paper's four sports pages to agate tables on racing performances. He brought his mistress to editorial conferences (so his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, charged in a divorce action) and made the old Post building on Pennsylvania...
MURROW: There is a time to live and a time to die-a time to sow and a time to reap-a time to laugh and a time to cry. This auction might well be called the death of a small farm . . . Dale Peterson was one of about 3,000 Iowa small farmers who quit in the last six months. In the nation, 600,000 have given up in the last four years. . . Some economists and agricultural experts claim that we are witnessing the death of the small farm in the United States-that in a world of machines...
...gloomy halls of La Paz's Foreign Ministry, crammed with ornate furnishings of so many periods that it calls to mind an auction house, a hundred men and women gathered one morning last week to shake hands with Foreign Minister Walter Guevara. After almost four years of energetic service, Guevara, a longtime sociology professor and an outspoken friend of the U.S., was being forced out. Even more worrisome was the cause of Guevara's fall: a plain left swerve by Bolivia's ruling party, the National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R...
...owned by the late sportsman. William Woodward Jr., continued to sell for astonishing prices. After buying 39 of the Belair Stud thoroughbreds for $410,000, Miss Mildred Woolwine and her partners resold the lot at Keeneland, Ky. for a 125% profit. With Segula, dam of Nashua, bringing a record auction price for a U.S. broodmare ($126,000), Kentucky Horsewoman Woolwine and her friends collected a total of $924,100. Nashua's sire, Nasrullah, also proved that he was worth a pretty penny. A syndicate headed by Kentucky's Thoroughbred Breeder A. B. ("Bull") Hancock paid the Belair Stud...