Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Silver Lining. In Gooding, Idaho, the state School for the Deaf and Blind got around to presenting Mrs. Ted Biddulph with her $5 prize 40 years after she had won a contest for naming the institution's monthly magazine, the Optimist...
London's auctioneers thought they had seen the ultimate in auctions a year ago, when a Rubens brought $770,000. But there seems no end to the art-market boom, or limits to its surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service that had never been shown outside Berkeley Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched...
Died. Frank Silver (born Silverstadt), 58, longtime drummer and conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000-most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn...
Twelve minutes ahead of schedule, the President, his son, Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and John's wife Barbara climbed aboard the sleek orange-and-silver jet. With a final wave, Ike was off for the first leg of his 22,795-mile trip, to Anchorage, Alaska. Seven and a half hours later, he touched down in Anchorage to a welcome by Governor William Egan...
...Durein) or Brussels (at Diane Dirgent), hunting rifles from Bury Donckier in Liege and cut diamonds in Antwerp, where they sell for 30% to 50% less than in New York. Holland has antique auctions in Amsterdam and at Delft (from Aug. 24 to Sept. 14), specializing in porcelain, silver and paintings. In the Scandinavian countries there are savings of up to 60% on stainless-steel flatware and silver (e.g., Georg Jensen silver costs about 1½ times more in New York). Impressive bargains are at shops of Shannon, a customs-free airport. An ounce of Jean Patou Joy perfume costs...