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Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
...Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds, linen and spittoons (TIME, March 29). Realized from the sale: almost $600,000 (replacement value: over $2,000,000). The auction came just 90 days before the Army decided to sell the Stevens. Yet for only $3,000 a month in storage charges the Army could have held...
...Manhattan, ruddy, quiet, cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...Miami, at a street auction, the scarf of a sailor rescued after an Atlantic torpedoing brought $2,000. At a Chicago auction, a bag of dog food brought...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...