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...nightclub in a $400-a-month Sunset Strip apartment with a dance floor, a waterfall, and rugs running up the walls. When he became engaged to Zsa Zsa Gabor (whom he made a vice president of his company), he gave her a 45-carat blue-white diamond so heavy that Zsa Zsa, who also knows a thing or two about publicity, could only gesticulate with her right, or free, hand. When the engagement broke up, Zsa Zsa, in unexplained violation of her usual practice, returned the diamond...
...thing sound startling, fragile and very expensive: "Suddenly, with clothes going soft and guileful," cried Vogue, "the beauty aspect is changing from cosy-natural to smooth-as-sapphire." Harper's Bazaar personified it in a Golden Girl: "Blithe spirit, her skin the beige of beaches," dressed in "14-carat comfort, 14-carat chic." What was exciting them was the new effort to add elegance to the casual look of the American woman. Sportswear for milady has never been more abundant, more nearly priced for every pocketbook, more durable, or made more suitable for 24-hour wear. It also emphasizes...
...jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested to her that they should quietly run away together. Hope declined, conjectured that cops would soon overtake them...
...Philadelphia Story (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Philip Barry's carat-dangling romance, with Ruth Roman, Mary Astor, Diana Lynn, Gig Young, Don DeFore. Color...
Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...