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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openings. "She used to tell me proudly how she had sat next to a real fine lady," says Caine. "It would make me bloody furious, and I'd ask her how she knew it was a fine lady. 'Because the lady had a gold watch and a diamond ring.' So I bought her a gold watch and a diamond ring, and she hasn't mentioned fine ladies since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Young Man Shows His Medals | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...remain a bachelor," he said after his 1964 divorce. "I've struck out twice and I've learned." Now he's differently inclined. "I wasn't in love when I said that," he explained, "and I am now." In Manhattan, he slipped a five-carat diamond ring on the finger of Actress Connie Stevens, 28, Broadway's current Star-Spangled Girl, reported that they will be married as soon as Connie's divorce from Actor James Stacy comes through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1967 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy. Written in prison in 1943 and first published in France in 1951, the book creates an intense picture of Genet's closed world. France outside the walls practically ceases to exist; only bare intimations of it seep through. A war is going on somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Impenitent Thief | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...notices she is wearing only a cashmere sweater, and he hopes she remembers her Russian sable jacket for her trip to the ski slopes. The memory of her French perfume haunts him on his trip into town, and he toys with the idea of buying her a South African diamond as a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Today, sporting a powder-blue tuxedo, monogrammed shirt cuffs, alligator shoes and a diamond ring on his pinkie, Rawls is savoring the sweet life to the utmost. After all, he said last week as he looked back on his grubbing chitlin days, "I paid my dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Soulin' & Sweet-Talkin' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

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