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...Girl's Best Friend. In Taipei, Formosa, after winning a $15,000, 17-carat diamond ring in a lottery, Navy Lieut. Lin Shou Ming received 37 proposals of marriage...
...that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger generation of artists is plunging headlong into the fashionable mists of abstractionism, Hopper is a spearhead of the opposite tradition, that art should reflect the contemporary scene...
Golden Leaves. Manhattan's Imperial Crown Inc. put on sale gold pins and earrings made by putting trees and plant-grown leaves in a vacuum chamber and forcing 24-carat gold into the pores. The jewelry retains the shape and details of the original leaf, and the company expects to put gold broccoli, parsley, pea pods and strawberries on the market in the next two months. Price for earrings: $4 to $6; pins...
Last week Arpels basked in a notoriety all his own. Caparisoned in a trim salt-and-pepper sports suit and oodles of pearls, Helene paraded into a Manhattan court to tell a sordid tale of domestic dolor. Arpels had turned out to be a 24-carat gem dandy, complained Helene, who married him in 1933, but his diamonds were another girl's best friend. The other woman: "a mere nightclub singer named Juliana Larson." After acting distracted last year in France, testified Helene, Arpels announced to her that "he didn't have much time to live and wanted...
...Walsh MacLean. who owned it and needed a little ready cash, it could not be found. Mrs. McLean finally had an inspiration and called: "Mike! Here. Mike!" In bounded a great Dane. Twisted about his neck was an ornate necklace of 72 diamonds centering on the unique 44½ carat Hope. Mrs. McLean handed over the stone and in exchange Simpson handed her a loan of $36,500. Author Simpson is now retired, but still grows agreeably lyrical about the carats and characters he has known...