Word: cleef
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Among fashionable jewelry firms, none is more discreet than Manhattan's Van Cleef & Arpels. The firm's customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power...
McCulloch sent along his check for $150,000, part of which Schlesinger turned over to Van Cleef & Arpels. Then Hegener, trying to recheck some details with Preger, reached him at a St. Louis hotel, found that he had not been in Dallas and listened in horror while the real Preger told him that Mrs. Williams had no interest in the oil properties. McCulloch stopped payment on the check. Thus, when Van Cleef & Arpels tried to deposit Schlesinger's check, it bounced -and Hogan's office started to investigate. At week's end Hogan was still looking...
Dashing Louis Arpels, a proprietor of the chic Manhattan jewelry house of Van Cleef & Arpels (branches: Paris, London, Newport, Cannes, etc.), is an international gadabout, but much of his fame has been reflected from his handsome wife, Helene, perennially in the headlines as one of the world's ten best-dressed women...