Wednesday, May 27, 2015
NEWSMAKERS
Sandra Lee back home after cancer surgery
ALBANY, N.Y.
Food Network star Sandra Lee is recovering at home after being discharged from the hospital after a double mastectomy.
Lee posted photos to her Facebook page Monday showing her smiling and sitting with her pet cockatoo and her live-in boyfriend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in the backyard of their suburban New York City home.
Lee had surgery last week. She revealed her breast-cancer diagnosis this month on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Lock of Mozart’s hair will go to auction
LONDON
Music lovers have the chance to own a strand of history.
Auctioneer Sotheby’s is selling a lock of hair from the head of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, resting in a gilt locket.
Taking composers’ hair as keepsakes was common in the 18th and 19th centuries.
After Mozart died in 1791 at age 35, his widow gave the hair to the mother of German composer Karl Anschutz. It was acquired by the late British composer Arthur Sommervell and is being sold by his family.
The hair is up for auction Thursday with an estimated price of $15,400 to $18,450.
The sale also includes a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair and an invitation to his 1827 funeral, together valued at $3,100 to $4,600.
Associated Press