Word: carat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italian automakers in Turin were readying a fabulous jalopy for delivery to the Shah of Iran. Of a "California gold" color, the car is topped off with shatterproof glass, has solid 24-carat gold instrument casings, a refrigerator, bar, telephone and record player. Estimated cost...
...admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany's to buy a trinket for his wife, saw a 60-carat diamond pendant he liked, wrote out a check for $91,000 and strolled out with his gift...
...Girl's Best Friend. In Taipei, Formosa, after winning a $15,000, 17-carat diamond ring in a lottery, Navy Lieut. Lin Shou Ming received 37 proposals of marriage...
...that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...
Golden Leaves. Manhattan's Imperial Crown Inc. put on sale gold pins and earrings made by putting trees and plant-grown leaves in a vacuum chamber and forcing 24-carat gold into the pores. The jewelry retains the shape and details of the original leaf, and the company expects to put gold broccoli, parsley, pea pods and strawberries on the market in the next two months. Price for earrings: $4 to $6; pins...