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...pair of Boucher classic allegories, totaled $1,264,410. Mrs. Rovensky's two Oriental pearl necklaces (which were once exchanged for Carder's present Fifth Ave nue headquarters), now considered to be worth only one-tenth their original value, still brought $181,000. Her 213.1 carat diamond necklace was knocked down to Manhattan Jeweler Julius Furst for $385,000, highest price ever paid for any item at a U.S. auction. By week's end, with the Rovensky library still to be sold, the total auction stood at $2,387,275, an alltime U.S. record...
...confiding to Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham that a going marriage is based on the little things that count. Said Terry: "For our first-month anniversary, Gene gave me diamond earrings. The next month, a gold bracelet and a solid gold carryall. Third month, a race horse. Fourth, a five-carat diamond ring. Next, a diamond bracelet from Tiffany's. The sixth-month anniversary, there was a blue Cadillac Eldorado waiting outside the door." Later "anniversary" loot: fancy apartments in Manhattan and Venezuela, mink, more diamonds. Sighed Terry: "Gene made me give all my own jewelry to my mother because...
Electric Wristwatch. The first commercial electric wristwatch was put on sale by Hamilton Watch Co. The same size as conventional watches, it is powered by a shirt-button-sized 1.5-volt battery. Price: $89.50 for gold-filled model, $175 for 14-carat gold-cased model, $1.75 apiece for replacement batteries...
...return, she coats him with 24-carat affection, holds hands with him on the street. "I know what people say," she says. "I don't care. I've been a good wife, and he's made me very happy. Even women with young husbands are less happy than...
...thorns," thundered William Jennings Bryan at the end of the peroration that won him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." In the most famed speech ever made in the U.S. on money, silver-tongued Bryan pounded home a 24-carat political fantasy: the bigger the money supply, the more for everyone. Bryan's particular panacea, a switch from gold to silver as the basis for an expanded currency, was discredited after his defeat by Republican William McKinley. But the easy-v. tight-money controversy, bitterly disputed ever since...