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Last week, authenticated as Bruegel's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, the little 9 by 13-in. wooden panel brought $31,000 at a London auction...
...freeze, March struck the death blow, got Franco's courts to declare Barcelona bankrupt. Since Heineman's group held all of Barcelona's common shares in Canada, the court ordered "duplicate" shares printed in Spain. Last week's court formality at Reus was to auction off these counterfeit shares to the highest bidder. The only bidder turned out to be Juan March's lawyer, who bought control of the big utility for 10 million pesetas...
Radcliffe's lost and found will go on the block at 3 p.m. this afternoon in the Cabot game room, when all unclaimed items left around dormitories and the Quadrangle will go up for auction, according to plans discussed at yesterday's Council meeting...
Proceeds from the auction will be given to the student Grant-In-Aid fund, chairman Elizabeth Tucker '52 has announced. All absent-minded students have been reminded to look over the loot to claim their articles before sales begin...
...Treasury, now deep in the red, this week tried a new device to raise some quick cash. It put up for auction $1,250,000,000 worth of special short-term interest-bearing notes which can be sold back to the Treasury next March or used to pay taxes. Banks and corporations were lining up for the notes so fast that Secretary Snyder planned a second billion-dollar issue soon. He seemed to have found a way to make early tax payments popular...