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Lauren ("The Look") Bacall showed Hollywood friends a new diamond bracelet with a small whistle attached. Said the inscription: "If you want anything - just whistle- H. Bogart." Adolf Hitler got a31-line biography in the 1945 British Who's Who - complete with telephone number (Berlin...
...weekend dance coming up and Easter in the offing, Elva decided on another foray. But by that time the word had been passed around the Kansas City stores to watch out for strange blondes. When Elva sauntered into Peck's department store and ordered $32.12 worth of bracelet charms "to help make a charming personality," the clerk got suspicious. When she appeared at another counter, under another name, to order a black formal and a blue street outfit, the floor manager did some quick checking. Next night, when the dance began, Elva was in jail...
From Ibn Saud she and daughter Anna Boettiger had each received a silk-embroidered harem gown. "We had quite a show the other night," said Eleanor Roosevelt primly, explaining that they had merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed...
January. In Stamford, Conn., an A.W.O.L. soldier, with a coat bearing the name Doak and a bracelet identifying him as Leslie Tripp, was reported to have admitted that though he had last married under the name Arthur R. Daly, he was actually John R. Schwartz...
When Ben Hecht was six years old his aunt, Tante Chasha, took him to see a Yiddish play in which the hero was falsely charged with stealing a diamond bracelet...