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...young seminarian has become wildly infatuated with her, and is about to give up his studies for the priesthood. But Sophia Loren, 28, playing a 14-carat call girl in Vittorio De Sica's afilming trilogy, Yesterday, Today...
...diamond season at Murfreesboro, Ark., opened early this spring when word got around that Fred Wood, a sawmill worker from Chidester. had found a ten-carat stone. It ought to bring $8,000, says Wood, and it is not the only diamond that he has found. "I don't do no digging,'' he says. "I just walk and look." He plans to name his find the Orval E. Faubus diamond, for his state's Governor...
...Fame as a Best-Dressed pacesetter "above annual comparison," Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of the board chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System, lost some of her most dazzling finery when a cat burglar raided the Paley estate in suburban Manhasset, L.I. Included in the swag were a 12-carat emerald and diamond ring valued at $77,000, a $50,000 diamond necklace containing 78 stones, other baubles and bangles, for a total haul of $193,200. "There was," said a CBS spokesman, "other jewelry in the house that he didn...
...York. Cartier's of Manhattan, which has been corporately independent of its Paris and London cousins since 1919, is more conservative than Tiffany's and more luxurious than Van Cleef & Arpels. Equally famed for custom-crafted goods at extravagantly high prices ($1,000,000 for a 107-carat emerald necklace) and a client list that concentrates on the upper registers, the U.S. Cartier's commemorates the shop visits of royalty with plaques at its entrance. In its handsome Fifth Avenue mansion, salesmen never push the merchandise; they discreetly "suggest...
Honored by the German Society for Photography, the world's foremost photographic organization: LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 63. who returned to his native Germany for the first time in 27 years to accept a symbolic optical lens with an 18-carat gold rim and a $1.250 cash prize "as a photojournalist who has caught in pictures the world happenings and events of the last decades with rare feeling...