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Late Late Show flop of the week: John Kelly of Philadelphia, ineligible for England's Henley Diamond Sculls more than 50 years ago because he had worked with his hands as a bricklayer, returned to haunt the hoity-toity British in the person of his lissome granddaughter Princess Caroline of Monaco, 17. That was roughly the plot the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week in a story that said Prince Charles of England, 25, was swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were...
...meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person...
What costs more than the Krupp diamond or a drawing by Rembrandt? Answer: a lonely homestead tucked away in the sylvan woodlands of New Jersey. Though there is nothing so gauche as a FOR SALE sign on the front lawn of this brand-new, Mediterranean-style villa, the hunt is on for a buyer The price tag: a cool...
...know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the earth -and made of diamond. There are atomic nuclei a mile across that rotate thirty times a second. There are tiny grains between the stars, with the size of and composition of bacteria ... The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming part...
...that many movie studios had taken-a switch in emphasis from artistic control to mere entrepreneurism. Like other large record companies, Columbia under Davis had moved more and more into the distributorship of smaller labels (Stax, Philadelphia International, Monument), more and more into high bidding for established stars (Neil Diamond and Laura Nyro for multimillion dollar deals) and less into its own experimentation and development of talent...