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...Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael Greene's Doctor Love; and although Diana Trilling's Mrs. Harris went for $125,000, her publisher, William Jovanovich, says, "Two years ago, it would have brought over...
Warner Amex and Home Box Office, a subsidiary of Time Inc., plunked down $ 13.7 million and $ 12.5 million respectively for two of the transponders. The high bidder, however, was a new outfit called Transponder Leasing Corp., which paid $14.4 million, and will presumably now turn around and lease out its space to other companies. Also high in the reckoning was Billy H. Batts, 46, a lay minister based in Chattanooga, Tenn., who has plans to establish a Protestant Evangelical and family-entertainment network. That must be a record price for a pulpit...
...loan, at 10%, from the Small Business Administration. When sales turned down this year, Kent could not stretch his finances any further. By last week he was literally out on the street. Said he glumly the day before an auctioneer gaveled off pieces of his business to the highest bidder: "It was almost impossible to make my payments; I just couldn't see any future...
Then still another bidder joined the action. Mobil put together a $5 billion credit package, and Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. issued a statement leaving little doubt that his company was poised to pounce. Said he: "We know Conoco and the business it operates. Conoco is a great company with fine resources and excellent management and personnel." Surprisingly, Warner's message shrugged off possible Government objections, saying, "Preliminary studies indicate that a Mobil-Conoco merger would not create difficulties under existing antitrust guidelines...
...bound to the club that initially signed him until he was traded or quit the game. When an arbitrator (and later an appeals court) ruled in favor of the players, the free-agent era began. Players who completed their contracts were free to offer their services to the highest bidder. The first free-agent re-entry draft was held the following fall. Reggie Jackson came away the big winner, signing a five-year contract at a reported $3 million with the New York Yankees...