Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...
...over Akim Abuakwa on Africa's Gold Coast. London knew him. Once he visited King George V to be knighted for his services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul. He also carried Sir Ofori's heavy ceremonial sword. A year...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a citizen's association, shocked by Florida's juvenile delinquency, has raised $50,000, begun acquiring property for a youth-center memorial. The center will provide teenagers with tennis courts, a softball diamond, library, snack bar, recreation room and a patio for dancing...
...column to produce daily (she is assisted by a ghostwriter), a heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter...
...into Britain's most ancient (founded in 1349), most exclusive (41 living members) Order of the Garter, thus became the first foreign Queen and the third living woman (only others are Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary) entitled to wear on her left arm the society's diamond-studded garter...