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...York City, Transcontinental & Western Air's genial Eastern manager, Stick Randall, went to an auction sale (proceeds to Finland), bought: a Dorothy Lamour sarong (used), $25; Paulette Goddard nightgown (used), $30; three of Jimmy Cagney's neckties (brand-new), $22.* Other Finland fans bought Greta Garbo's evening gloves, Josef Lhevinne's autographed concert handkerchief...
Tops in both prestige and sales from 1883 to 1939 was the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, which auctioned over $160,000,000 worth of art. Every big U. S. art fancier knew its dignified building on Manhattan's esthetic 57th Street, its shrewdly-lit, velvet-draped auction stage. But spooks lurked behind that arras. Last summer the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries folded up for nonpayment of debts (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week its two partners gave Manhattan its best mystery story since Drug Dealer Frank Donald Coster (TIME. Dec. 19, 1938, et seq.). Tabloids christened...
...season was disastrous. Cream of the auction crop went to the new galleries which Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet had started around the corner. With a big overhead, Logan and Geery staggered along on what Geery could raise and borrow - and allegedly by appropriating clients' money...
...appeal of curly-haired Mayor Kelly of Chicago, who spoke of the city's 27 railroads, its newspapers, the reasonableness of its hotel accommodation, and who said that, while Chicago would meet any reasonable figure, "we in Chicago are not here to be put on the auction block...
...railroad (by mileage). Last month Alleghany Corp. (now controlled by Glass-Jar Tycoon George Alexander Ball) sold out 150,000 shares of O. P.'s preferred stock to establish a tax loss. They had cost an average of $104 a share. They sold at auction for less than...