Word: chokers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicate of Australians, Americans and Japanese called Pearls Proprietary Ltd. is turning out a product that has the world's jewelers agog. The product: fabulous pearls as big across as a 25-cent piece, of gem quality so fine that a Manhattan jeweler recently sold a choker of Kuri Bay pearls...
...smoke thickened, and as the Scotch bottles emptied, so did tongues. Wershow droned on. "I have pleasure in selling Lloyd Mangrum. He has his house built and paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where's your...
Later, Carol made her bid, her green costume and rhinestone choker glittering through a light snowfall. She, too, repeated her Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...
...style-conscious Air Force, which has introduced to U.S. military, fashions such items as lapels on the blouse (replacing World War I's choker collar), slacks (replacing boots, spurs and breeches) and the "50-mission" cap, last week moved on once more...
...Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker...