Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glass eyes" for gun sights, binoculars and other military instruments are ground ten times faster than by hand on new machines designed by American Optical Co. of Southbridge, Mass. Diamond-impregnated tools replace the loose abrasives formerly used...
...Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know almost everybody from Diamond Jim Brady up & down, became the unofficial odds-maker of the betting world, a sort of one-man Lloyd's. Gamblers from London to Buenos Aires wired, phoned and cabled him before they aid their bets. "Over a period of 40 years," le once explained, "one learns where...
Still tops in World War II is the score of late Lieut. Colonel Werner Molders, designated "Ace of Aces" by Hitler, decorated with the diamond-encrusted insignia of the Oak Leaves with Swords of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He shot down, according to the Germans, 103 planes, then was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger...
...generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (ermine, a diamond...
Franz Josef a necklace of cameos; King Umberto of Italy a fan. Wrote Victor Hugo after Sarah's performance in his play, Hernani: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...