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...ducks, which are a welcome relief, arrive after Yo-Yo inadvertently nods during an auction. After quarreling over the poultry, the Drakes make up by writing on their first boiled duck eggs: "I'm sorry. Me too." When Fairbanks hits it with a knife, it gives off a note stolen from "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and the show is on. At this point, the sound track is cluttered with noise, and the plot filled with impossible sequences. A representative from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades with tanks...
...Spokane, some 3,500 curious and bargain-hungry citizens turned out to watch the Government auction off the house and effects of mobdom's tax delinquent Virginia Hill. The house was knocked down to a local salesman for $30,237, just $237 more than the Government's minimum selling price. Some 1,800 odds & ends brought a total of $14,992, including Virginia's own little .25-caliber pistol with a clip and a couple of shells for $36; a ruby-studded wedding ring intended for her marriage to the late Bugsy Siegel, which went...
...Hollywood, the marathon auction of Hedy Lamarr's personal effects finally got down to the jewelry. Among the trinkets: four used wedding rings, knocked down for a total...
...buying policies are also causing jitters in Australia, where high-grade wool tumbled to $2.19 a lb. at auction last week, compared to $3.73 in March. The U.S. Quartermaster touched off the market break when he stopped stockpiling wool for uniforms. The Australians, are also faced with a new threat to high wool prices. Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson said that the Government might promote a big synthetic-wool industry by granting tax advantages for expansion to Du Pont (Dacron), Union Carbide & Carbon (Dynel) and other makers of wool substitutes. Such a program could eventually make the Merino sheep as obsolete...
With a disregard for sentiment that raised even Hollywood's firmly planted brows, Hedy Lamarr closed the doors of her Beverly Hills house behind her, put its entire contents up for auction. She was leaving not only her screen career, but all its trappings, to begin life anew in Acapulco, Mexico, where her new (fourth) husband, ex-Bandleader Ted Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats...