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high end of the art world.
• The 8- by 13-foot painting titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" depicts a twisted body sprawled across a car's mangled interior. It has only been seen once in public in the past 26 years. Sotheby's, which conducted the auction Wednesday, did not immediately identify the buyer.
• The previous Warhol auction record was set in 2007 when "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)" sold for $71.7 million.
• Another iconic Warhol, "Coca-Cola (3)," sold for $57.2 million Tuesday at Christie's auction house, and his portrait of Elizabeth Taylor titled "Liz (hash)1 (Early Colored Liz)" sold for $20 million Wednesday.
• A Willem de Kooning abstract painting in red, yellow and white called "Untitled V," not seen in public since 1980, sold for $24.8 million Wednesday. The sale fell short of the record for the artist's works, set Tuesday at Christie's with the sale of his "Untitled VIII" from 1977.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2013. There are 47 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
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• On Nov. 14, 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln gave the go-ahead for Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond; the resulting Battle of Fredericksburg proved a disaster for the Union.
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• In 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale" was first published in the United States.
• In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. (Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.)
• In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days. (She made the trip in 72 days.) Jawarharlal Nehru (juh-wah-hahr-LAHL' NAY'-roo), the first prime (Continued on page 30)
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