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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...
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...
Superlatives, Most popular pavilion at the Exposition to judge from the number of visitors thus far: Belgium's. . . . Price of the Van Cleef & Arpels brooch of overlapping leaves in small diamonds and rubies duplicating one bought by the Duke of Windsor for his Duchess: 225,000 francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women...
HARVARD YALE Washburn 118-pound Coppersmith Wagner 126-pound Platt McGranahan 135-pound Valas Lardner 145-pound Van Cleef Kimball 155-pound Mills Emory 165-pound Warner Kidder 175-pound Wight Aranson H. W. Curtin...
...Bonts. Significant in the Renaissance group are examples by Marcellus Koffermans, Girard David, Quentin Metsys and Jan Gossart--called Mabuse. Several of the so-called minor Flemish artists are represented by the anonymous Master of the Legend of St. Ursula; the Antwerp Master from Hoogstraaten, Joachim Patinir, Joose van Cleef, Colun de Loter, and the Franco-Fleming, Jan Prevost...