Word: carats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept the whole glittering Golconda-the 51-carat diamond ring, the Sarah Bernhardt bracelet, the seven-strand baroque pearls and all the rest -stashed in a Hattie Carnegie dress box camouflaged with old lingerie under the bed. When the horrified insurance company protested, nonagenarian Cosmetics Czarina Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them...
...DeLong ruby, stolen last October in the great jewel robbery at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. MacArthur packed the cash in a bundle of $100 and $50 bills for Freelance Writer Francis P. Antel to deliver to the usurers who had held the 100.32-carat ruby as collateral on a loan. He then drove out to a phone booth near Palm Beach and found the stone perched like a pebble on a ledge over the door. MacArthur announced that the ruby will quickly rejoin nine other jewels recovered so far-including the priceless 563.35-carat Star...
...story that might be entitled Murph the Surf, His Yeggs and All That Unfenceable Swag, a band of thieves slipped into New York City's American Museum of Natural History and footpadded out with 24 gems, including the priceless Star of India sapphire and the $140,000, 100.32-carat DeLong ruby. Chapter II: the cops picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India (TIME, Jan. 15). Chapter...
...Room. A rare blend of innkeeper and conservationist, Rockefeller has until now specialized in the Caribbean, building quiet, out-of-the-way resorts on Bali-Ha'i beaches with 24-carat accommodations-Caneel Bay on St. John's, Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda, Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. Mauna Kea may prove his biggest resort investment so far. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the hotel is a tiered, four-story structure whose 154 rooms surround palm-filled inner courtyards. Guests with rooms facing west gaze out on a beach with sand the consistency of powdered sugar...
...profusely illustrated volume worthy of deposit on any drawing-room table. Ivory Hammer 2 is the second annual report to be published in the U.S. It reprises the 1963-64 season, during which Sotheby's knocked down an unprecedented $37 million worth of art, from an 11.80-carat unset emerald ($65,800) to the bugle that blew the charge of the Light Brigade ($4,480). More than 250 illustrations, some in color, all priced in pounds and dollars, plus-for no good reason-an original short story by Wolf Mankowitz about an imaginary sale at Sotheby...