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...Pappy left the courtroom Lucy's lawyer came up to return his "fraternity pin"-his blue-ribboned Navy Cross. Lucy no longer has her three-carat engagement ring Pappy gave her. "I hocked it to pay his bills," she explained...
...Capitol have plodded across the vast "Hall of Lost Steps" to gawk at a giant diamond in the floor. Last week it was gone from its star-shaped setting. On the Day of St. Dismas, patron of good thieves, a thief crashed the glass covering, chiseled out the 23 -carat shiner. * Alongside he jotted cabalistically: 2:45-3:10, then ap parently left by the Capitolio's front door...
...biggest moment was yet to come. To insure the success of the banquet -held to raise money for the Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund-every ticket holder had been promised a chance to win a genuine 109-carat diamond...
...drove to Reno-where pretty, brunette Mrs. Malcolmson was divorcing her husband on Pappy's behalf. She didn't seem to understand. Pappy found himself giving her a three-carat diamond engagement ring. That wasn't all-after Pappy beat a strategic retreat to Los Angeles, Mrs. Malcolmson called in reporters and announced that she was to become Mrs. Pappy Boyington within a week...
...francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...