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...prospectors stopped where the Avequí River cuts over the mountain's edge. One of the men tossed a few shovels of river sand on his suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...
...stores reporting seeing the student were the Simpson Jewelry Company at 1 Brattle Square and Derby Jeweler, Inc. on Massachusetts Avenue. At both places this student asked if the one and a half carat diamond were genuine. He was described as being 25 years old, 5 ft, 11 inches tall, and wearing a dark topcoat...
Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, who was engaged to All-America Glenn Davis for eleven months before she gave him back his gold football last June, broke her four-month engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, but kept the 3^-carat diamond ring that she had lightly called, in happier times, a "nice piece...
...leader had cased the job well: he demanded two of the suitcases in the car and the Begum's jewel case. In them was jewelry worth between $600,000 and $800,000 (insured with Lloyds of London) ; among the 40-odd pieces were a $125,000, 25-carat diamond and a $190,000 bracelet...
...Point football, who long held the inside track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece of ice," she said happily. "At least, that's what Bill calls...