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Many of the items were gifts exchanged among royalty. There was a whole case devoted to the works of the great Russian court jeweler, Peter Carl Fabergé (TIME, April 6, 1953), including a resplendent Easter egg presented by Czar Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1914. The egg is made of a transparent mesh of platinum, gold and diamonds, contains a jeweled stand bearing portraits of the Czar's five children. Another Fabergé masterpiece was a 3-in. grand piano of Siberian jade. The most valuable item in Queen Mary's collection: a Potsdam bloodstone...
...hour's notice, the dealer closed his doors, let the old lady roam through all crannies. Some dealers kept a special drawer for her, in which they put aside items of the kind she favored. Others, knowing her penchant for exploring, prepared their shops as for an Easter-egg hunt, with curios to a queen's taste hidden where she was sure to find them...
...Christmas has degenerated into a spectacle of buying presents. Easter has become a time of buying new hats. Perhaps the Second Coming of Christ will be the occasion for vast sales of binoculars. The average American wouldn't swap his TV set for the best theologian who ever lived...
...fear of fire in the nursery had long haunted Freda Holland. 41, a night nurse at Reading's Dellwood Maternity Home. 36 miles west of London. Early on Easter Sunday, it rose to grip her heart in panic as she opened the door behind which lay her newest charges: 15 babies, none more than nine days old. The room beyond was filled with smoke; flames licked through the floor amid the cribs, and one baby's bedding was already taking fire. Sister Holland screamed for help and rushed into the ward. Another nurse came to help, but they...
...Cordiner predicted that G.E.'s profits for the entire year would be better than in 1953. For those whose earnings were down, the drop was usually less, percentagewise, than the drop in sales. There were other encouraging signs. Dun & Bradstreet announced that department-store sales for the Easter season were equal to those last year. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported, for the third month in a row, that the majority of their members reported an increase in orders...