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Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time...
Study in Contrasts. Wherever they come from, all the girls would get a high Kublai Khan rating. Oddly enough, perhaps the easiest of all recruiting jobs involved the 20-carat stars. Early last spring Rodgers saw Pat Suzuki on Jack Paar's television show and recognized her right away as his stripper, Linda Low. After Miyoshi's Oscar-winning performance in the movie Sayonara, both Rodgers and Hammerstein realized that Mei Li's lines had been written for no one else...
...Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...
...registered mail (postage: 90?; registry charge: $151.85), the Hope Diamond went from Manhattan to the new Hall of Gems and Minerals in Washington's Smithsonian Institution. Donor: Harry Winston, the jeweler prince, who bought the $1,000,000-$2,000,000, steel blue, 44½-carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime Washington Post Owner Edward B. McLean, died in a mental institution. Some previous owners: King Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie...
...could see around him at a given dinner party is limited only by the geographical horizon. But even so, sheiks do have to pare their invitation lists, which explains why Abdullah of Kuwait has ordered-from West Germany's Vereinigte Werkstaetten furniture makers-only 200 straight-backed, 14-carat, gold-plated dining-room chairs...