Cole Porter’s birthplace in Indiana was sold at auction this week. But the house rests on two plots of land, and two different buyers bought them. “A local resident, Brian Boyce, won one lot with an $800 (£470) bid, but a Michigan man, Keith Wegner, outbid him on the second parcel, buying it for $9,000. Mr Boyce said he might restore the historic house and convert it for a bed and breakfast business.”