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Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...
Sculptor Haseltine's brilliant, blinkered devotion to animal subjects has made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
...Washington's late, free-handed hostess, turned out to have been a rather cautious grandmother. Her will distributed her estate (including the Hope Diamond) equally among her seven grandchildren-but it left plenty of time for everybody to thresh everything out (including the distribution of the 44¼-carat diamond). The divvy was not to be made until...
Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...selected jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...