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...Ladies and gentlemen," announced the auctioneer at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, "we now come to the Krupp diamond"-a flawless, 33.19-carat blue-white stone once given by German Industrialist Baron Alfried Krupp to his wife Vera, and considered one of the world's great gems. $100,000, commenced the auctioneer, and up shot the price. $150,000 . . . $175,000 . . . $225,000. At $300,000, even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap...
...performance that won Peggy her Olympic gold medal was strictly 24-carat. For two days, under the intense scrutiny of nine judges, she traced on the ice "paragraph loops," "rockers" and "brackets" (all variations on the basic figure eight) with such precise symmetry that by the end of the compulsory figures-which count for 60% of a skater's score-she had a virtually unassailable lead of 77.2 points over her closest competitor...
...GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN (Epic). Time was when British Folk Singer Donovan, with his dreamy surrealistic ballads, was known as a psychedelic Pied Piper. His new album suggests that he is still a 24-carat hippie; he is photographed decked out in a robe with beads, posies and peacock feathers, and his gentle singsongs ooze various kinds of blissfulness ("His kisses on your brow/You may rest assured peace is coming"). Yet the self-styled minstrel has a stern message to his followers: "Stop the use of all Drugs and banish them into the dark and dismal places...
...Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back...
...sing beautifully. "Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back." Listen...