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...gifts going to the winner are: a bracelet from Diana Christine: a Parisian silk scarf from Elaine Claire; a blouse from the Town and Travel Shop: a copy of the Betty Crocker giant cook book from the Harvard Book Store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mulvihill, Capp to Judge Maid Final; Jewelry, Orchids, Nylons to Winner | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Texas sound more like lies than some of the lies about Texas. It is first among the states in the production of oil, gas, mohair, wool, cattle and Angora goats. It has 132,000 oil wells, three highly regarded city symphony orchestras and a housewife who recently ordered a bracelet bangle designed to look like a kitchen sink with diamonds dripping from the faucet. It has the Cullen Foundation, which has set aside $160 million worth of oil properties to endow medical, educational and charitable institutions. One Texan has a million-dollar-a-week income, and so many others have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Where Everything Is More So | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter and a $74,290 diamond ring). Said Dodge, who is still waiting for a final divorce decree from wife No. 4: "I do hope to marry [Gregg] some day." Purred Gregg: "Friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Gracious Gesture | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

U.M.T., steadfastly advocated by military men since George Washington's day, had finally been bulled through a somewhat reluctant Congress, was at last the law of the land. Marshall, Bradley, Eisenhower, Collins had urged it. And Anna Rosenberg, George Marshall's able, bracelet-jangling Assistant Secretary, had worked out many of the details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Design -for Cooler Days | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...however; they offer a warm and charmingly candid portrait of her family-and of her father's frequent distress at the family's frivolity and worldly ways. "Yesterday evening [Papa Tolstoy] asked Lev what he had in his hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone to the theater . . . Papa stood motionless for some time, all of us sitting there, hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of a Genius | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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