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An on-line auction site is hoping to find out by selling a vial that it claims was used to draw President Ronald Reagan’s blood while he was recovering from the gunshot wound that nearly killed him in 1981. To top it off, the auction site says, “dried blood residue” is clearly visible inside the vial. [...] PFC says the vial is being sold on behalf of the son of a deceased woman who worked at a laboratory in Columbia that tested Reagan’s blood, which had been drawn while he was treated at George Washington University Hospital.
PFC says the vial is being sold on behalf of the son of a deceased woman who worked at a laboratory in Columbia that tested Reagan’s blood, which had been drawn while he was treated at George Washington University Hospital.
The lab worker was permitted to keep the vial and its accompanying paperwork by a supervisor at Bio-Science Laboratories, the son wrote in a statement posted on the auction site. The mother kept the vial until her death in 2010. The unidentified man said he contacted the “Ronald Reagan National Library” – he meant the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library – in Simi Valley, Calif., and was told that the National Archives would accept the vial but not pay for it. “Reagan when he was my Commander in Chief when I was in the ARMY from ’87-’91 and that I was a real fan of Reaganomics and felt that Pres. Reagan himself would rather see me sell it rather than donating it,” the man wrote on the PFC website.
The jersey was bought Sunday for $4.4 million, nearly quadruple the previous high for a piece of Ruth memorabilia: the bat he used to hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923. That went for only $1.265 million. “To see this jersey bring in $4.4 million is shocking,” said Leila Dunbar, an appraiser and former Sotheby’s executive whose specialties include sports memorabilia. “The record for a Ruth jersey before was $1.025 million. For some reason, there’s been a dramatic rise in the value of jerseys the past year.”
That went for only $1.265 million.
“To see this jersey bring in $4.4 million is shocking,” said Leila Dunbar, an appraiser and former Sotheby’s executive whose specialties include sports memorabilia. “The record for a Ruth jersey before was $1.025 million. For some reason, there’s been a dramatic rise in the value of jerseys the past year.”
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When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the prosperous head of a small empire commonly known as Newt Inc, which included both for-profit consultancies and nonprofit foundations. Altogether, these entwined ventures pulled in more than $110 million over the past decade. Now the vestiges of this empire are mired in debt, as is Gingrich's campaign fund. A bankruptcy proceeding under way in Atlanta will determine whether the one company still owned by Callista Gingrich, Gingrich Productions, will lose an expected payout that now constitutes the bulk of the Gingriches' net worth.
Altogether, these entwined ventures pulled in more than $110 million over the past decade. Now the vestiges of this empire are mired in debt, as is Gingrich's campaign fund.
A bankruptcy proceeding under way in Atlanta will determine whether the one company still owned by Callista Gingrich, Gingrich Productions, will lose an expected payout that now constitutes the bulk of the Gingriches' net worth.
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