Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Evalyn McLean Reynolds, 24, fifth wife of ex-Senator Robert R. Reynolds, daughter of wealthy Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the "unlucky" Hope Diamond; reportedly of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills; in Washington...
Female relatives of the late Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, former vice chairman of the Maritime Commission, had been in special demand as bottle-smashers. Five had received $6,457.65 in shipyard gifts; Daughter Barbara's share included two diamond bracelets. Ernie Pyle's widow, for christening a ship named in her husband's honor, was handed a $25 gimmick...
...decision, released by the H.A.A. last Friday, leaves top niches in basketball and baseball here open for new appointments. Stahl had supervised the diamond squad since his arrival in Cambridge eight years...
...last week more than 1,000 claims reportedly had been staked in the area. Twenty men were at work on the Burke-Bromley claims alone, clearing topsoil. Diamond drillers would start work soon. A tent city sprouted nearby and hundreds of gold-seekers lived in sleeping bags. Little Foleyet (pop. 2,000), twelve miles north, was jammed. Big mining firms like Hollinger, Mclntyre, Moneta and Vincent were buying up claims at fancy prices. The Canadian National Railways was already making emergency stops a mile from the strike site, and there was talk of putting in a spur...
Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell, after five years of Spartan wartime exile, was back in Shangri-La, her marble-&-granite palace off Honolulu's Diamond Head. The short-time Hearst correspondent (she sent some earnest stories from Rome) flew in with eleven pieces of baggage and a couple of house guests, settled down among her waterfalls and fountains for a long rest. Had she plans for a future in journalism? Her considered reply: "Newspaper work is interesting...