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...from Mrs. Cattrell's uncle that had been hanging in their living room for 15 years. "The most attractive paintings I have are those by my seven-year-old daughter," said Cattrell. Taste is taste. But when the couple decided to sell the canvas to make a down payment on a car, they found quite a market. Bidding at Sotheby's stopped at $537,600 for The Temptation of Eve, authenticated as one of the few existing works of the 16th century German master Hans Baldung. "Obviously," said Cattrell after the sale, "we shall be able to afford...
Hartgering replied that he did not know the details of the clinic's operation, that the City Hospital's only connection with the clinic was to provide lab services for it, and that he was trying to work out an arrangement for payment of the bills...
...Kennedy realized another ambition. He married Rose Fitzgerald, the lithe, convent-schooled daughter of Boston's ebullient Mayor John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Borrowing $2,000 for a down payment, Kennedy bought a nine-room frame house in the Brookline section of Boston. The family needed the space. Joe Jr. arrived within a year; five of the nine Kennedy children were born within six years...
CHARITIES. Going along with the House, the committee agreed to end the unlimited charitable deductions that allow some extremely wealthy people to escape payment of all or nearly all federal income taxes. This provision has some undesirable side effects. While it would prevent charitable contributions for purposes of reducing taxes, it would also remove the incentive for making gifts to schools, museums and other nonprofit institutions...
...Afro-American Society seized the building-which has been under construction since last August-with the demand that the administration halt construction and stop payment to the company while the suit is being litigated in the courts...