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...biggest: the 3,106-carat Cullinan...
South Africa announced that it would sell 100,000 ounces of 22-carat gold at $38.20 an ounce through the London brokers Mocatta & Goldsmid. (On the basis of 24-carat or "pure" gold, the Fund's yardstick, that meant a premium of about $6.50 over the $35 rate.) South Africa said the gold was not being sold for monetary purposes but for industrial and similar uses, and was thus beyond the Fund's jurisdiction. The Fund thought differently. Since the brokers kept mum on the gold's destination, the Fund suspected that it was going to hoarders...
...merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
...Guests' palatial home to appease the clamoring press. Bobo said: "I love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...