"The auctioneer gave it his best... and finally extracted a $6,000 bid."
t the daily paper where I used to work, there was a saying among the reporters that news is what happens to an editor while they’re on their way to work — in other words, a trend that was perfectly obvious to thousands of readers would suddenly make the headlines when it somehow affected the person who wrote the headlines. I don’t know if that was absolutely true, but I do recall
