Word: carats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haste from five local banks. Ever since, Frederick's taxpayers have been paying off the debt. Last week, with a final installment of $20,000, Mayor Donald Rice paid the last of the ransom. ¶ In Los Angeles, James and Harry Kazan ian had a 1,318-carat sapphire, valued at about $250,000, carved into the likeness of Abraham Lincoln. The Kazanjians, who plan to have three sapphires carved with portraits of Andrew Jackson, George Washington and Henry Ford, explained that they were of Armenian ancestry, had prospered in the U.S., and wanted to do something worthwhile with...
...biggest: the 3,106-carat Cullinan...
...four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around." The trinkets were recently taken from a bank vault, she explained, for a safer country hideaway. "I was worried about the atom bomb...
...political chance, and his vision is still 20-20. He reads all the Ohio Sunday papers and the political columnists, keeps track of men who are up & coming, and takes pains to meet new personalities and spread his own name around. He is not one to dull the 24-carat political sheen of his own background-the son of poor Italian immigrants who made something of himself. And he is not bashful about draping that fact with the Stars & Stripes. Yet there is nothing manufactured or insincere about Mike Di Salle's feeling for his country...
Deep Curtsy. The 24-carat prima donna was what a Metful of admirers (including one who flew from France) paid a top to see, and just what they...