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...procession of eight to the ground, 38 stories below, by candlelight. Housewife Harriette Browne hated to do it, but she had to use the 48 candles from her husband's birthday cake to light the house. One Fifth Avenue jeweler credited the sale of a $6,500 brooch to candlelight. "It does give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during the long night. So great was the demand...
Diamonds for Tears. The toast of tout Paris, Sarah accepted a diamond brooch from Alfonso XII of Spain, a necklace from Emperor Franz Josef, a fan from King Umberto of Italy, wore them all with élan. One admirer even ordered her a bicycle from Tiffany's studded with diamonds and rubies. Victor Hugo, after Sarah's performance in his play Hernani, wrote: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...Paul at the dedication of Notre Dame's new $8,000,000 library. Another Curia officer, Paolo Cardinal Marella, 69, presided over the unveiling of the Pieta at the New York World's Fair, and brought Francis Cardinal Spellman a sentimental gift from Pope Paul: a topaz brooch once worn by Pius XII on state occasions. Marella returned home with four honorary doctorates, including one from Catholic University, which last year barred four progressive theologians from giving lectures there; conservative Marella commended the university for its loyalty to the teachings of the Holy...
...given last year, but certainly welcome this year, is Gov. 121, "Bureaucracy," an understanding of the contents of which is prerequisite for success in anything. On the necklace of history courses at eleven, the brooch is History 184a, which emphasizes Chinese thought from the Han dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasties. For diversion there are introductions to Czech and Polish (Slavic Ca and Da) and Hittite (Linguistics 225). The last presumes no previous knowledge of cuneiform and should just round out you Gen Ed program...
...city she has visited. Cracked one of the guests in the diamond horseshoe circle, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson: "The pictures of dying America, I suppose." ∙ ∙ ∙ "There is beauty even in explosions," intoned flamboyant Jewelry Designer Roger King, 26, whose flashy $3,400 brooch suggesting an A-bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency...