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...Carat Topped. In Los Angeles, a notice was posted in police headquarters in City Hall: "18-carat white-gold engagement ring with 12 diamonds to trade for a .38-cal., 2-in. barreled revolver...
Thousands of Egyptians paid 50 piasters ($1.40) apiece to gawk at the other items of the King's ransom displayed in the palace library. They saw a solid gold, 11-in. replica of the Suez lighthouse, a diamond-encrusted fly-whisk handle. An 18-carat gold bottleholder (still holding a bottle of Pepsi-Cola) stood near...
...kitchen-loving housewife, Dallas' Linz Bros, displayed a bracelet bangle in the form of a 14-carat gold sink with tiny diamonds streaming from the faucets. Price: $200. Another Linz offering: a man's pocket watch, which tells the day of the week, phase of the moon, date of the month and year, and strikes the quarter hours in pretty chimes...
...marched out." Somehow-he won't say how-he got his money to Canada in 1939. How did he get to the U.S.? "I buy a brand-new Cadillac," he tells with a smile, "cross the border and drive to Los Angeles." Says Sacha Wolanow, fingering a three-carat diamond ring: "I am going to buy and buy until I'm the biggest real-estate man in America. I will make Zeckendorf* look like peanuts...
...finally got to play Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The occasion was the biggest one-night stand of her career: the Sophie Tucker Golden Jubilee Testimonial. Driving up to the front door in a gilded 1903 Ford and rolling-into the Grand Ballroom like a great float (a 24-carat cloth-of-gold gown, a Mr. John hat with diamonds and foot-high white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th...