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...beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wittelsbach Treasure | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...year and was, as he put it, "bewitched." Dawley decided on the spot that he wanted "more than anything in the world to bring Ireland-the beautiful, inspired, elegant, romantic Ireland-to America." Lord & Taylor sent out two advance scouts with cameras and expense accounts to see what the Emerald Isle had to offer. Wave after wave followed -two vice presidents, two merchandise managers, 26 buyers, display men, art directors, photographers, fashion editors. Eleven months, 48 transatlantic crossings, and more than $1,000,000 later, Lord & Taylor has assembled enough Eireana to stun St. Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Emigrating to America | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...still weighs heavily on Sophia Loren. When asked what she wished on her gravestone, she replied simply: "Here lies Sophia Ponti." But the Neapolitan beauty is still a long way from R.I.P., and on her 29th birthday, troubles momentarily retreated. Husband Carlo presented her with a lima-bean-sized emerald ring, and Sophia purred: "It's great to be a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Foreign Devils Go Home | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...Fame as a Best-Dressed pacesetter "above annual comparison," Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of the board chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System, lost some of her most dazzling finery when a cat burglar raided the Paley estate in suburban Manhasset, L.I. Included in the swag were a 12-carat emerald and diamond ring valued at $77,000, a $50,000 diamond necklace containing 78 stones, other baubles and bangles, for a total haul of $193,200. "There was," said a CBS spokesman, "other jewelry in the house that he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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